Megan Milks s Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body (2021) is a highly celebrated queer coming-of-age novel that was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. It heavily explores sapphic desire, 1990s girlhood, and trans/genderqueer identity through a experimental literary lens.
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks
A genre-bending, darkly comedic reimagining of 1990s adolescent nostalgia, Megan Milks’s novel follows Margaret Worm, the twelve-year-old head detective of the mystery club ‘Girls Can Solve Anything’. As high school begins, the club disbands and Margaret finds herself completely unmoored by the social demands of growing up, her burgeoning sapphic desires, and an overwhelming sense of gender dysphoria. Opting out of adolescence entirely, she develops a severe eating disorder that lands her in a surreal treatment center. There, the narrative fractures into a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ style video game format where Margaret must navigate literal ghosts, secret passages, and the shifting landscape of her own body. The text serves as an essential, brilliant interrogation of the ‘girl sleuth’ genre, populated by the queer, butch, and trans youths historically left out of mainstream YA fiction.
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks
A genre-bending, darkly comedic reimagining of 1990s adolescent nostalgia, Megan Milks’s novel follows Margaret Worm, the twelve-year-old head detective of the mystery club ‘Girls Can Solve Anything’. As high school begins, the club disbands and Margaret finds herself completely unmoored by the social demands of growing up, her burgeoning sapphic desires, and an overwhelming sense of gender dysphoria. Opting out of adolescence entirely, she develops a severe eating disorder that lands her in a surreal treatment center. There, the narrative fractures into a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ style video game format where Margaret must navigate literal ghosts, secret passages, and the shifting landscape of her own body. The text serves as an essential, brilliant interrogation of the ‘girl sleuth’ genre, populated by the queer, butch, and trans youths historically left out of mainstream YA fiction.
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| Title: Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body |
| Author: Megan Milks |
| ISBN: 9781950000000 |
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| Genre: Trans & Gender Identity; Fiction; YA Fiction (Young Adult) |
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| Publication Date: 44453 |
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| Publisher: Feminist Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 267 |
| Rating: Good |
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| Book_ID: 107185 |