I Was a Teenage Slasher

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?

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?

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