![]() Of particular note is the book’s graceful handling of Maggie’s weight: Maggie has few, if any, explicit observations about her body, none of which she connects to her unapologetic love of desserts even when her elitist, estranged grandmother asks, “Oh Maggie, what happened to you?” all Maggie sees in the mirror is her same old self. Her engaging use of first-person narration adeptly syncs the reader’s understanding with Maggie’s, while skillfully revealing things about Maggie that she herself doesn’t seem to see. ![]() Sovern handles this personal topic (it’s her family’s story written as Maggie’s memoir) exceptionally well, creating in the audacious Maggie a relatable, admirable heroine with the self-involvement and simultaneous lack of self-consciousness credible for someone just leaving childhood. ![]() She adds the new goal of fixing her father to her list of aspirations, devoting her science fair project to learning about MS-including, she’s devastated to find, its lack of cure. Although Maggie loves spending more time with her dad, rocking out to Led Zeppelin and hearing about her parents’ counterculture past, his increasing bouts of illness make it clear that his condition is more serious than she’s been told. It’s 1988, and eleven-year-old Maggie faces a shift in her life when her father’s multiple sclerosis worsens, requiring him to use a wheelchair and necessitating that her mother take a grueling job at a local hotel. ![]()
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