The Final Girl Support Group: A Novel

"The Final Girl Support Group is a thriller-mystery as drenched in affection for slasher flicks of the ‘80s and ‘90s as their heroines were in blood. Here, those franchises are based on real-world murder sprees survived by a “final girl,” the lone survivor who takes out the monster at the end. For decades, these women have been meeting for group therapy – and then somebody starts trying to kill them. Glorying in horror tropes, meta-references and social critique, Hendrix’s novel is about women who refuse to give up. There’s interesting stuff here about the way women are discussed, how their stories are monetized and how we as a society consume anguish."