BECOMING KATE

Liz had no idea that today would be the last day of her life. It felt like any other Saturday. She wore the same jeans she wore every weekend, wore the same color lipstick, and sat in the same Honda she'd been driving for six years.


At twenty-nine, Liz Lindsay is in her prime, juggling her duties as a wife and a mother to two lively children. But when her car is struck head-on by a semi, her family has every right to believe Liz is gone forever. What they don't know is that only a few miles away, Liz has just woken up in the body of an eleven-year-old girl, Kate - the survivor of the world's first-ever brain transplant. Horrified by the reality of her new life, Liz struggles with the secret of her memories and her enduring love for the family she left behind.


This stunning debut novel from Dixie Wilks-Owens is filled with equal parts heartache and hope; tragedy and redemption. Guaranteed to keep you engrossed and guessing until the very last page, Becoming Kate is an enthralling exploration of identity, family, and what it really means to be alive.
At age 29, Liz Lindsay has a full life: wife to a handsome husband, mother of a young girl and boy. But her life is cut short when she gets in her car to run an errand and is hit by a truck. Next thing Liz knows, she wakes up in the hospital, surrounded by strangers who are calling her Kate, her body all wrong. It?s much too small. Very soon she finds out that she has just been involved in the first-ever brain transplant. Her brain was donated from her body into the body of an 11-year-old girl named Kate. Panic sets in when she realizes how drastically her ?life? has changed.Read more at Rated Reads

Who am I? What am I? These are all questions that we ask ourselves in times of stress or frustration. The answers, of course, are the work of entire professional activity, including psychologists, psychics, therapists, bar tenders, hair dressers, and so on.

Imagine that your body died, but your brain could be harvested for transplant. You are a mature woman with a husband and family. A skilled surgeon, for the first time ever, successfully installs your brain in the skull of a twelve year-old girl whose body is alive but brain died.

Are you dead or alive? What about the girl. Who are you now?