My Heart Is a Chainsaw

Summary

Jade Daniels is a troubled teenager in the small lakeside town of Proofrock who escapes her hard life by obsessing over slasher movies and their rules. When wealthy outsiders build mansions across the water and bodies start turning up, Jade becomes convinced that a real slasher cycle is unfolding and casts a newcomer as the final girl who can stop it. The novel blends a loving knowledge of horror cinema with raw emotion about abuse, class, and Indigenous identity, building to a brutal and cathartic climax.