That's Not My Name by Megan Lally - OPTIONAL

That's Not My Name by Megan Lally, 304 pages. Sourcebooks Fire, 2023. $12 

Language: R (156 swears 83 'f');  Mature Content: G;  Violence: PG-13 (bloody hitting and bloody death) 

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH 

A 17yo young woman wakes up in a ditch and has no idea how she got there. A police officer drives by, sees her, helps her and takes her to the police station where he questions her and realizes that she has lost her memory. She has a flashback of standing by a cluster of postal mailboxes and big hands grabbing her but she remembers nothing else. Soon after, a man arrives asking the police officer for help in finding his missing daughter. Alternately, a community is searching for a missing teenage girl that disappeared while walking home. Could this be the same girl?

The mystery kept me glued to the pages. The characters are an interesting and diverse set of personalities. The mystery unravels cleverly. The ethnicity falls to white. 

LynnDell Watson, Delta High School Librarian