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Cuckoo

by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Horror rooted in queer survival

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Horror rooted in queer survival

Set across two timelines, Cuckoo connects a summer at a remote conversion camp in 1995 with the survivors’ return sixteen years later. The camp’s threat is both supernatural and bodily: something buried in the desert wants to take over its victims’ bodies. That horror frames a story about queer youths abandoned by their parents and the lasting consequences of what happened at Camp Resolution. The survivors’ shared history becomes central as they confront the danger again, with the stakes extending beyond their own lives.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in supernatural and body-focused horror
  • Readers seeking horror centered on queer characters and survival
  • Readers drawn to stories that link a formative past with a later confrontation

Themes

Queer survivalConversion campsBodily autonomy and transformationTrauma and shared historySupernatural horror

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Book overview

A Best Book of 2024 (NPR) - A Locus Award Finalist

The
USA Today bestselling novel from Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt, where a group of teens must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell.

"A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing."--Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie

Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin.

In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survived--but at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person.

Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken survivors of that terrible summer can put an end to the horror before it's too late.

The fate of the world depends on it.

"With Cuckoo, Felker-Martin appoints herself the new High Priestess of splatter."--Tony Tulathimutte, author of National Book Award finalist Rejection

Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:
Manhunt
Black Flame

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