Published in 2022
ours and 32 minutes
Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has a forthcoming picture book from Heartdrum called When We Gather and a picture book from Levine Querido called Chooch Helped. Andrea’s YA collection of short horror stories, Man Made Monsters, received six starred reviews and won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Teens. She lives in Fayetteville, AR and can be found at andrealrogers.com.
What is this book about?
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 listeners longing for more.
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.
