A review by camillejoy
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham

5.0

I loved this. Mothers, daughters, and wounds that travel down through the generations. A portrait of a family reassembling itself, and of each beautifully-rendered woman in this story searching for her identity, and struggling to embrace it against social stigma. When Katie's estranged grandmother turns up suffering from dementia and in need of care, Katie's mother struggles to embrace the
mother who abandoned her as a child. Katie tries to unravel the truth of their past, while struggling with her own questions of identity.