Hole in the Middle [Paperback]

For every reader who grew up loving R.J. Palacio’s Wonder comes a hilarious, heartbreaking, and magical YA debut about what it means to accept the body you’re given.

What if the empty space was what made you whole?

Morgan Stone was born with a hole in her middle: a perfectly smooth, sealed, fist-sized chunk of nothing near her belly button. After seventeen years of hiding behind lumpy sweaters and a smart mouth, she decides to bare all. At first she feels liberated . . . until a few online photos snowball into a media frenzy. Now Morgan is desperate to return to her own strange version of normal—when only her doctors, her divorced parents, and her best friend, Caro, knew the truth.

Then a new doctor appears with a boy who may be both Morgan’s cure and her destiny. But what happens when you meet the person who is—literally—your perfect match? Is being whole really all it’s cracked up to be?Praise for Hole in the Middle

Fortmeyer’s humor, sweetness and focus on sexual and medical consent are winning.
—The New York Times

Dazzling, one hundred percent believable, and laugh-out-loud funny. Kendra Fortmeyer has an admirably weird brain.” 
—Kelly Link, author of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist Get in Trouble

An unabashedly feminist book [that] speaks directly to issues like body image and sexuality.
—The Rumpus

Incredibly different from most contemporary books that you see on bookstore shelves . . . Highly recommended, as thlc