Y (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781451674408)

"A gorgeous, moving debut....Marjorie Celona writes with acute sensitivity to how a child sees her world and renders a character readers will love in all her glorious self-doubt" (The Boston Globe).

Marjorie Celona's internationally acclaimed debut, longlisted for the Giller Prize, chronicles a wise-beyond-her-years child abandoned as a newborn on the doorstep of the local YMCA.

Growing up in foster homes, Shannon chooses to define life on her own terms, but she never stops wondering why she was abandoned. Brilliantly interwoven with Shannon's story is the tale of her mother, Yula, a girl herself who is facing a desperate fate in the hours and days leading up to Shannon's birth. As past and present converge, Celona's beautiful novel tells an unforgettable story of identity, inheritance, and, ultimately, forgiveness.

Author: Marjorie Celona
ISBN-10: 1451674406
ISBN-13: 9781451674408
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2013
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/02/2014 pg. 24