![]() 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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