Margaret And The Mystery Of The Missing Body
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"A delightfully weird and very queer reimagining of 90s YA nostalgia." - Autostraddle "Queer dynamite." -Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything.Margaret and her three best friendsledexciting lives solving crimes, having adventures, and laughing a lot.But now that she's entered high school,the club has disbanded, and Margaret is unmoored-she doesn't want to grow up, and she wishes her friends wouldn't either. Instead, she opts out, developing an eating disorder that quickly takes over her life.When she lands in a treatment center,Margaret finds her path to recovery twisting sideways as she pursues a string ofnewmysteries involving a ghost, a hidden passage, disturbing desires, and her own vexed relationship with herself. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence-mashing up girl group series, choose-your-own-adventures, and chronicles of anorexia-in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia and dysphoria, this debut novel puzzles through the weird, ever-evasive questions of growing up.
Author: Megan Milks
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 203mm x 139mm
Published: 2021, Feminist Press at The City University of New York, United States
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Description
"A delightfully weird and very queer reimagining of 90s YA nostalgia." - Autostraddle "Queer dynamite." -Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything.Margaret and her three best friendsledexciting lives solving crimes, having adventures, and laughing a lot.But now that she's entered high school,the club has disbanded, and Margaret is unmoored-she doesn't want to grow up, and she wishes her friends wouldn't either. Instead, she opts out, developing an eating disorder that quickly takes over her life.When she lands in a treatment center,Margaret finds her path to recovery twisting sideways as she pursues a string ofnewmysteries involving a ghost, a hidden passage, disturbing desires, and her own vexed relationship with herself. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence-mashing up girl group series, choose-your-own-adventures, and chronicles of anorexia-in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia and dysphoria, this debut novel puzzles through the weird, ever-evasive questions of growing up.
Margaret And The Mystery Of The Missing Body