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Manhunt

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"By far the best book I've read this year." —Roxane Gay
#1 Best Book of 2022 (Vulture)

  • A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan)
  • One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Esquire, Library Journal, Paste, and CrimeReads)
  • A Top 10 Horror Debuts of 2022 (Booklist)
  • A Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Horror
  • A Best Book of 2022 (Tor.com)
  • A Best SFF Book of 2022 (Gizmodo)
  • A Top 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature (The New York Times Style Magazine).
    Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and trans men on a grotesque journey of survival.

    "A modern horror masterpiece." —Carmen Maria Machado
    Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.
    Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.
    After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics—all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.
    "A filthy, furious delight."—The New Yorker
    Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:
    Cuckoo
    Black Flame
    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        November 22, 2021
        Felker-Martin’s daring debut imagines a world in which a plague turns men into violent cannibals and those left alive must do whatever they can do survive, including—in the case of trans women like Beth and Fran—harvesting men’s genitals to keep the disease at bay themselves. The two meet up with Robbie, a gunslinging trans man bearing his own trauma, and together the three seek safety, facing waves of feral men, heavily armed TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) hell-bent on bringing about the extinction of trans women, and the labyrinthine dynamics of their own relationships as they process their brutal histories. Felker-Martin’s horror chops are top-notch, with gut-churning prose zoomed in on the strangeness of human bodies and on the characters’ squeamish relationships with the physical realm, and her exploration of mental illness, trauma, and dysphoria excellently complement the grimy atmosphere. The plot, however, doesn’t quite coalesce, with much of the narrative feeling like a series of vignettes lashed together, and it can be frustrating to process all the small-scale emotional beats without the clear vision of where the story might be heading. Still, this swings for the fences admirably. Fans of Poppy Z. Brite and Clive Barker should give this, well, ballsy postapocalyptic tale a shot.

      • Booklist

        December 15, 2021
        Felker-Martin's latest novel serves as a corrective to the various gender-based plague dystopias that never take into account the existence of trans people. After ""T-day,"" any human with too high a level of testosterone is transformed into a vicious, feral monster that attempts to kill anyone in sight. Fran and Beth are two trans women eking out an existence as ""manhunters,"" harvesting the testes of feral men for their friend Indi to render into estrogen and other hormones for wealthy bunker clients. Fran and Beth's precarious existence dodging packs of men and trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) gangs is transformed when they encounter Robbie, a lone trans man who has been living in almost complete isolation with only his rifle for company. The three of them, along with Indi, have to figure out a new safe haven for themselves as the TERFs take over Boston, passing through the bunkers of the wealthy and the enclaves of trans survivors alike. Felker-Martin's self-described filthcore prose easily conjures the grotesque horrors both internal and external that these beleaguered trans survivors pass through on their desperate search for some brief moment of security. Highly recommended for those looking for particularly upsetting or disturbing horror fiction.

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      • Library Journal

        Starred review from January 1, 2022

        DEBUT Beth and Fran are in the woods, on the run from monsters--some created by a virus that turns any human with enough testosterone into a zombie-like creature; others from an organized group of women ruled by a violent brand of anti-trans hate. Beth and Fran are not helpless, however. They are skilled hunters, seeking the valuable, estrogen-rich testicles of the infected men to bring back to their friend Indi, a doctor who is distilling E for medicinal purposes. So begins this compelling, fast-paced, and tense postapocalyptic tale of a band of survivors fighting off villains and struggling to find safety, featuring stellar worldbuilding and complex, fully developed characters. The original frame, a testosterone-driven plague, opens the door for Felker-Martin to probe the popular zombie trope while simultaneously centering the experience of trans men and women. The result is a sensual, tender, honest, and inspirational story of imperfect but well-meaning people banding together in an attempt to not only survive but thrive. VERDICT This novel confidently plants a flag declaring its place among the greatest band-of-survivor zombie tales, right beside thought-provoking, action-packed classics such as The Rising, by Brian Keene, Zone One, by Colson Whitehead, and Mira Grant's "Newsflesh" series.

        Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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