![]() She writes, “Back in Cincinnati I am ‘that girl who was born without legs.’ Yet here on spring break in Fort Lauderdale I become a beautiful girl with a limp.” Here Cronin is a young college girl who just wants to feel beautiful and normal. ![]() The first pages are set in Florida during spring break. However, she never strays far from humor as she navigates embarrassing questions, bullying, and her budding sexuality. Sometimes she asks us for sympathy, while other times she pushes us away. I respect Cronin for laying out the terrors, failures, and triumphs of her most vulnerable years. Being an outsider is one thing when you’re a butter sandwich preteen with purple glasses growing up in Montana, but Eileen Cronin was missing legs. ![]() A girl in my grade claimed to have set up a series of chairs to assess my clinginess, and after she walked through them, she said I’d followed her like a cocklebur. In third grade I pissed my pants in front of everyone. ![]() My German mother was known to serve weird salad. ![]() I was the last of my friends to land a boyfriend. Norton & Company, 2014) and flipped through the prologue, I began thinking about my own adolescence. When I first picked up Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience(W. ![]()
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