Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

By: Megan Milks

Narrated by: Megan Milks

Meet Margaret. At age 12, 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 '90s 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.

©2021 Megan Milks (P)2021 Tantor

very real and personal

I probably would have enjoyed this book more had I known what I was getting into. this is not a fun visit in nostalgic detective stories. this book grabs the reader mercilessly and shakes till you go limp. it offers deeply personal insights and detailed descriptions of unspoken things. take all the mentions topics as very serious cwarnings please

This book..

This book ripped me open, invited itself in then gave me a tour. Thrilled that it was read by the author.