Dear Liza
Hole in the Middle
By Kendra Fortmeyer
Kendra Fortmeyer’s 2019 Hole in the Middle is a coming-of-age magical realist novel.
Seventeen-year-old Morgan Stone always wears bulky, concealing clothes and avoids social interactions that could require showing skin. This isn’t because Morgan is a modern-day puritan. It is because Morgan was born with a hole through her lower torso and she does not care to find out how others will react to this oddity.