And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. About the Book "In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for.
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