Walter Dean Myers Award Winner
BEST OF THE YEAR
Washington Post - Booklist Editors' Choice - Publishers Weekly -
Horn Book - New York Public Library
Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things
just happen to sixteen-year-old girls.
Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as
one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept
the last decade.
Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection - from werewolves
to vampires to zombies - all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But
so are predators of a distinctly American variety - the horrors of
empire, of intimate partner violence, of dispossession. And so too the
monsters of Rogers' imagination, that draw upon long-told Cherokee
stories - of Deer Woman, fantastical sea creatures, and more.
Following one extended Cherokee family across the centuries, from the
tribe's homelands in Georgia in the 1830s to World War I, the Vietnam
War, our own present, and well into the future, each story delivers a
slice of a particular time period that will leave readers longing for
more.
Alongside each story, Cherokee artist and language technologist Jeff
Edwards delivers haunting illustrations that incorporate Cherokee
syllabary.
But don't just take it from us - award-winning writer of The Only Good
Indians and Mongrels Stephen Graham Jones says that "Andrea Rogers
writes like the house is on fire and her words are the only thing that
can put it out."
Man-Made Monsters is a masterful, heartfelt, haunting collection ripe
for crossover appeal - just don't blame us if you start hearing things
that go bump in the night.
P R A I S E
★ "Many of these stories sound as if they were passed down as family
histories. It may read like speculative fiction, but it feels like
truth."
--Horn Book (starred)
★ "Stunning collection of short stories follows a Cherokee family
through two centuries, beginning with something akin to a vampire attack
and ending with zombies."
--BCCB (starred)
★ "Spine-tingling...A simultaneously frightening and enthralling
read."
--Publishers Weekly (starred)
★ "Chilling... Exquisite... A creepy and artful exploration of a
haunting heritage."
--Kirkus (starred)
★ "Startling...Will leave readers--adults as well as teens--unsettled,
feeling like they have caught a glimpse into a larger world."
--Booklist (starred)
