Memoirs of a Midget

Foreword by Alison Lurie / 379-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 978-1-58988-012-2 / Publication Date: January 2004 Miss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (though just how diminutive, the author never says) with a "passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies, and stuffed animals." Miss M. tells of her early life as a dreamy orphan and, in particular, of her tempestuous twentieth year—in which she falls in love with a beautiful and ambitious full-sized woman and is courted by a male dwarf. Concluding that she must choose either to simply tolerate her difference or grow callous to it, Miss M. resolves to become independent by offering herself up as a spectacle in a circus. "For centuries to come, this book will inspire imaginative people. Beyond all doubt, it will be an ingredient of future poetry."—Rebecca West "It may be read with a great deal of simple enjoyment and then it sticks like a splinter in the mind."—Angela Carter "It seems