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Make Sure You Die Screaming

Make Sure You Die Screaming

Carlstrom, Zee

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 1250365694
ISBN13: 9781250365699
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

One of NPR's best books of 2025

Named one of the hottest debut novels of 2025 by Goodreads

It's Fear and Loathing for the generation devastated by the generation that brought us Fear and Loathing. --Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

An electrifying debut about a nonbinary corporate burnout embarking on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas to find their conspiracy-theorist father, who has gone missing

The newly nameless narrator of Make Sure You Die Screaming has rejected the gender binary, has flamed out with a vengeance at their corporate gig, is most likely brain damaged from a major tussle with their now ex-boyfriend, and is on a bender to end all benders.

A call from their mother with the news that their MAGA-friendly, conspiracy-theorist father has gone missing launches the narrator from Chicago to deep red Arkansas in a stolen car. Along the way, the narrator and their new bestie--a self-proclaimed garbage goth with her own emotional baggage (and someone on her tail)--unpack the narrator's childhood and a recent personal loss that they refuse to face head-on.

An unflinching interrogation of class rage, economic (im)mobility, gender expression, and the rot at the heart of capitalism, Make Sure You Die Screaming is the loud, funny, tragic, suspenseful road trip novel of our times.

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