Hole in the Middle

Name: Hole in the Middle
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Kendra Fortmeyer
ISBN: 9781980003366

Author: Kendra Fortmeyer

Narrator: Suzy Jackson

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/04/2018

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes

Synopsis

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 AM I MISSING? Morgan was born with a hole in her middle: a perfectly smooth, sealed, fist-sized chunk of nothing near her belly button. At sixteen she’s tired of keeping her physical abnormality a secret. One night, after a lifetime of hiding behind lumpy sweaters and a smart mouth, she decides to bare all. At first she feels liberated. But the fallout is more than she bargained for. A few photos snowball into a media frenzy, and suddenly she is desperate to get back to her own strange version of normal. But between hospital visits, Internet celebrity, and a disintegrating relationship with her best (and only) friend, normal is slipping further and further away. Then a new doctor appears with a boy who may be both Morgan’s cure and her destiny. What happens when you meet the person who is—literally—your perfect match? And is being whole really all it’s cracked up to be? “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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Aj the Ravenous Reader on May 22, 2020

A unique YA debut about a girl coming to terms with her hole in her middle, a literal hole that is, an insanely out of this world concept in my opinion. Morgan is the Hole Girl and funnily, there is another character in the person of Lump Boy, Howie who might just be the possible source of cure for......more

Goodreads review by Noura on January 05, 2021

Thank you Soho Teen for providing me with a review copy in exchange for an honest review. ARC given through The Nerd Daily. “It’s weird how much time you spent hiding, when all you really wanted was to be seen.” I really wish I hadn’t started this book at the wrong time. I had a few things going on a......more

Goodreads review by Laura Jean on January 11, 2019

***SPOILER ALERT*** This book really resonated with me. As a woman with a very visible disability (One of my eyes is obviously smaller than the other. It never developed properly. It has a silver sheen on the cornea and it follows my dominant eye around like an annoying socially awkward younger sibli......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on July 21, 2017

I really enjoyed this book. It has so many interesting things to say about body image, fame, and identity. The writing is gorgeous, and I loved going on this ride with Morgan!......more

Goodreads review by Chazley on February 22, 2019

I adored this book. It does everything it sets out to do -- growing real characters out of a surreal situation without becoming overly metaphoric or sappy. Morgan Stone's fluctuating insecurity about her body is painfully realistic, which makes the moments when she accepts (and even celebrates) hers......more