![]() ![]() The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer begins with Mara in a hospital, with no recollection of the building collapse that killed three people-including her best friend and her boyfriend-but somehow left her barely harmed. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyerby Michelle Hodkin demonstrates awareness of these tropes, and masterfully avoids them. ![]() Instead, it is misrepresented, whether as a necessary rite of passage cured by a change in mindset, an automatic flip to either total debilitation or cartoonish villainy, a mostly dormant condition causing the occasional panic attack, or (my personal least favorite) a false diagnosis by characters unaware of what’s actually going on. ![]() In speculative fiction, PTSD might be the only disability that I hesitate to call underrepresented. ![]()
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