What Becomes Us

The writing was 4 stars, the storyline 3.
This book is written in a poetic manner. It's beautifully written.
Also, it was very uniquely narrated by the twins that Evie is still carrying.

The story is a bit odd. Evie leaves her husband and runs far away. She finds a job at a small town school and a house that sounds like a dream home. At first everything seems perfect.

But her neighbors are very eccentric. She also happens to arrive in town when the previous teacher was fired after teaching a controversial book about Mary Rowlandson and Weetamoo.
I was not familiar with either of these historical figures before this book.

The people in town are all split on whether Evie should be teaching the book. Evie isn't sure herself, especially show more considering weird things start happening in Evie's house when she's researching Mary and Weetamoo. She even starts to have nightmares about actually being Mary.

On top of this, she is falling for a married man. The book jacket says he's married to "the bravest woman she knows". Is that really Evie's opinion of her? I think she's afraid of her some of the time and impressed by her the rest of the time. I think she's completely odd and not necessarily harmless.

This feels like the reverse of all the stories where a newcomer moves to town, finds it to be the perfect place to live and loves everyone and everything in the town. I've definitely read a lot of books like that.
I think it will remain to be seen whether Evie moving to this town was a good idea and whether it was beneficial to the town or herself. show less

A convoluted novel told through the eyes of twin unborn babies. Their mother has fled the west coast and father to get a new start in small town New England. She gets a job as a history teacher at the local school. She establishes a relationship with a married man who she meets there. The book is so garbled that it is hard to describe. There is a book that describes a local woman who kidnaped by Native Americans in Colonial America. This appears to be the only history she teaches in her class at school. There are too marry characters both adults and kids that it all becomes a mish mash.