A hybrid of memoir and essay from award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon. 'This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination...grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible... 'I was born as part of a monstrous structure--the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted...