Memoirs of a Midget John Andrew Gallery Palmer gave me a peek

Palmer gave me a peek inside a world I would not have otherwise seen

shaped by an abiding appreciation for 'the incomparable solace of ordinary life

But mostly he loves the outdoors

but this engrossing book shows how to bear up and live in-between the inescapability of what was and the uncertainty of what is to come

It yields much insight into our own society

Memoirs of a Midget John Andrew Gallery Palmer gave me a peekForeword 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 yearin which she falls in love