49 pages 1 hour read

Stephen Graham Jones

I Was a Teenage Slasher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

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The novel draws heavily on tropes in the slasher movie genre, but is Stephen Graham Jones also drawing from the coming-of-age genre? What are the tropes that define coming of age?

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The quote “I’m good with ether” recurs throughout the novel as an inside joke between Tolly and Amber. Though the phrase originated from Tolly’s father, how does its appropriation into a joke contribute to developing Tolly and Amber’s relationship?

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What is the novel’s position on potential and working-class life?

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