Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

Name: Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Megan Milks
ISBN: 9781666170023

Author: Megan Milks

Narrator: Megan Milks

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Meet Margaret. At age twelve, she was head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. Margaret and her three best friends led exciting 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 of new mysteries 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.

About Megan Milks

Megan Milks is the author of Kill Marguerite and Other Stories, forthcoming from Feminist Press in revised and expanded form as Slug and Other Stories, and Remember the Internet: Tori Amos Bootleg Webring. With Marisa Crawford, they are coeditor of We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers; with KJ Cerankowski, they are coeditor of Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Born in Virginia, they currently live in Brooklyn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan on September 17, 2021

OUT NOW! I wrote this! Again and again for ~15 years. Forthcoming September 14, 2021. You can preorder here: [URL not allowed]-a... Thanks to the following writers for the generosity of their endorsements! <3 “One of the brashest, brainiest, funniest, most electric novels I’ve read in......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on November 13, 2021

What a marvel of a book. Every time I thought I had it figured out it morphed into something else entirely. This is something I've encountered in other novels, but Milks really takes you by surprise because she starts you out in what will be the hyper-familiar for readers like myself who remember Th......more

Goodreads review by Sage on March 07, 2022

Loved this!!! A perfect, weird, unlike anything else kind of book. A pre-coming out, trying to be a “good girl” trans masterpiece. CW: eating disorders (and everything related)......more

Goodreads review by Emily on December 14, 2021

transcendent. broke me open. how do i write about a book like this? how do i write about a life like this? a knowing smile, a slap in the face, the terrifying spectacle of embodiment and existence and love, always love. i think i need to lie down for a while......more

Goodreads review by Rach A. on March 25, 2023

Brilliant. This is an inventive, unique, experimental work that was reminiscent to me of Carmen Maria Machado in the way it plays with genre and form. Part girl-gang fantasy mystery club, part autofiction, part coming-of-age set at an eating disorder clinic, part…horror? Ish? It explores eating diso......more