Margaret And The Mystery Of The Missing Body

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body is queer dynamite. I devoured this book in one sitting, completely engrossed by the wild plot and by Megan Milks's stellar, singular voice. This is a book of bodies, sure, but it's also a book about the messiness of them, their complications and intractability, their frustrating unknowability. Their mutability. Their wonder. This novel is a bright spot of brilliance. I absolutely adored it. --Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things I tore through this book in a day and was still thinking about it weeks later. It's the smartest novel I've read in a long time and the most politically astute. Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body is a coming-of-age novel about growing up through coming-of-age narratives, then reappropriating those narratives from the inside and writing your own freedom. It's also compulsively readable, hugely moving, and more fun than the pop classics it makes free with. Magnificent. --Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens Megan Milks's Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body is both delightfully strange and deeply familiar. The classic female coming-of-age novel is not simply queered; the casual horror of it is made manifest with a powerful imagination, both playful and sinister, sweet and surreal and emotionally real. I loved this deceptively fun book. --Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms