HOLE IN THE MIDDLE is the story of 17-year-old Morgan Stone, who's spent her life concealing the eerie hole in her torso -- and what happens when she confronts a world obsessed with body image, internet celebrity and unlikely love stories
Morgan's sick of living with her secret. She was born with a hole in her middle: a perfectly smooth, sealed fist-sized chunk of nothing where a stomach ought to be. After seventeen years of hiding behind lumpy sweaters and a smart mouth, she's fed up. But when she bares all, the fallout is more than she bargained for.
A few photos snowball into a media frenzy, and suddenly Morgan's desperate to get back to her own strange version of normal. But between the hospital visits, the internet celebrity, and a disintegrating relationship with her best (and only) friend, normal is slipping farther and farther 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? Is being 'whole' really all it's cracked up to be?
HOLE IN THE MIDDLE explores the hard truths of being a young adult in a world obsessed with body image, instant fame and unlikely love stories.
Fortmeyer's humor, sweetness and focus on sexual and medical consent are winning
