The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Hodkin, Michelle. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. 2011. 452. ISBN 978-1442421769. FIC HOD on the library shelves. This book has been nominated for a Flume Award in 2015.

Mara Dyer does not know why she’s in the hospital. Not a first. But fragments of memory slowly come back to her, and news report fill in the rest. She was in an ancient insane asylum with her friends in the middle of the night when the building collapsed, killing her best friend, another girl, and that girl’s brother. How she survived she doesn’t remember.

Now her life is too painful in Rhode Island, and the whole family moves to Florida to help her recuperate away from her memories. Her two brothers enter new school, even though there are only six weeks left. Mara herself returns to school, and on her first day she meets Noah Shaw, who turns out to be one of the strangest and richest boy at school.

However, she still sees the ghosts of her dead friends, which is what forced her out of her home, and they seem to be haunting her. The moments she lose and the things she does when she has visions get progressively worse.

As people around her start dying in strange ways, and as Noah becomes more insistent they share unnatural abilities, can Mara come to term with her own life? Can she find the memories that are preventing her from moving on? Or will her visions cause her untimely death?

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