Gretchen: I’m like alright why are they out here, what are they getting out of this, what are the obstacles in their path as they’re pursuing this extremely desperate way of making a living? And from there I start to think about the other people who are in this world and how they feel about this and their connection to it. So it’s like okay what has to be true about the world for this moment to make sense?ĭrew: So in building the world what comes after that image? I take an image and I build outward from that. Gretchen: The very first thing I came up with for Manhunt was the image of a trans woman shooting a man while he was drinking water at a pool. Where did you begin? Was it with the concept? The characters? The themes? I was lucky enough to talk to Gretchen about the book, discover more about her writing process, and, of course, discuss the horniness of The Nanny.ĭrew: The world of the book feels so full. Felker-Martin finds the humanity in all of her characters - even her worst ones - and it results in a work of art as challenging as it is entertaining. The depths this book explores about trans people’s relationships to themselves, each other, and the world at large touch on experiences I’ve never seen in fiction. Within her heightened setting, Felker-Martin has crafted a collection of characters that feel as true to our world as their own. And yet the novel is so much more than a provocation. With its post-apocalyptic setting where testosterone is poison and TERFs run death squads, it’s readymade to piss off all corners of the internet. Gretchen Felker-Martin’s new horror novel Manhunt is sure to inspire discourse.

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“Keeps up a relentless velocity while just being plain fun as hell. A fresh, stomach-turning take on gendered apocalypse.” - NPR “Disgustingly rendered and brilliantly imagined….

Gretchen Felker-Martin’s 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, bestselling author of In the Dream House STARRED Reviews in Library Journal and Booklist ! Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren’t safe.Īfter 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. 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.

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