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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

Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction

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.


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Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 14, 2021

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  • ISBN: 9781952177811
  • Release date: September 14, 2021

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  • ISBN: 9781952177811
  • File size: 2248 KB
  • Release date: September 14, 2021

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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

Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction

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.


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