Felker-Martin brilliantly engages with the tired trope of the gender apocalypse from a trans perspective, centring the people those books tend to erase or denigrate. Just as Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless (2021) unflinchingly dissects the links between transphobia and fascism in the UK, so Felker-Martin’s novel does for the US. It is both a grisly splatterpunk apocalypse tale and an excoriating exploration of transphobia and fascism. Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt (2022) is an incredible and urgent work of horror fiction. “Community is when you never let go of each other.
No matter how prepared you were, some things just rolled over you in a hot, sticky black tide and you were lucky if they left you standing.” It had been that way since they were kids. “Fran had grown up with money, back when money stil meant something, and she had that middle-class brain disease that makes people think calamities can be controlled.
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