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Book SynopsisMorgan Stone was born with a hole in her middle. A perfectly smooth patch of nothing where a something should be. After seventeen years of fear and shame, doctors and nurses, 'peculiar' not 'perfect', she has had enough of hiding.
Trade ReviewDazzling, one hundred percent believable, and laugh-out-loud funny. Kendra Fortmeyer has an admirably weird brain * Kelly Link *
Kendra Fortmeyer's debut is more heart than holes, creatively brilliant, wacky and wise. An author to watch! * Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, author of the Carnegie Medal-shortlisted The Smell of Other People’s Houses *
The magical realist element allows for
a sharp but never preachy take on body image, romance and internet culture, most delightfully when strangers speak up about their own "holes", having "found an empowering metaphor for their lives" in the narrator.
An optimistic ending is hard-won rather than saccharine. With this debut,
Fortmeyer establishes herself as a writer to watch. * Irish Times *
Fortmeyer's humor, sweetness and focus on sexual and medical consent are winning * The New York Times *
