Highly recommended for those looking for particularly upsetting or disturbing horror fiction. 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. 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. This book is being bombed with one star reviews because it’s written by a trans woman. You can follow her work on Twitter and read her fiction and film criticism on Patreon. 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. GRETCHEN FELKER-MARTIN, author of Manhunt, is a Massachusetts-based horror author and film critic. 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. 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. 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.
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