Aug 01, 2012 · Marjorie Celona’s debut novel, Y, won France's Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Héroïne and was nominated for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Marjorie has published work in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Southern Review, Harvard Review, The Sunday Times , and elsewhere.
"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 “Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? . . . My life begins at the Y.” So opens Marjorie Celona’s highly acclaimed and exquisitely rendered debut about a wise-beyond-her-years foster child abandoned as a newborn on the doorstep of the local YMCA. A compelling literary mystery about the dark corners in a small community, from Marjorie Celona, whose award-winning debut novel Y was praised by Evie Wyld as 'a beautiful, moving book that explores what it takes to belong'. Abandoned on the steps of a YMCA as a baby, the narrator of Marjorie Celona’s debut novel, Y, is often met by ridicule or pity. But as Shannon points out, Superman was a foundling, too. Comics, movies, and books are filled with orphans whose search for identity leads them to discover some greater destiny. But Y is grounded firmly in reality, showing that while such quests are necessary and Celona Marjorie: free download. Ebooks library. On-line books store on Z-Library | B–OK. Download books for free. Find books Called compulsively readable, exquisitely rendered, evocative, ambitious, psychologically deft, even audacious - Y: A Novel is Marjorie Celona's first book. It was nominated for the 2012 Giller Prize, enjoyed several weeks on the Maclean's bestseller list, and has garnered widespread acclaim and applause from the critics.
Jan 10, 2013 · “Y,” Marjorie Celona’s heartfelt first novel, opens by defining its eponymous letter as the “wishbone, the fork in the road,” also the “question we ask over and over.” That question particularly
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Celona writes movingly about basic questions of identity, questions exacerbated by the unhappy circumstances of Shannon’s birth. Pub Date: Jan. 8th, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-4516-7438-5
Swaddled in a sweatshirt with nothing but a Swiss Army knife tucked between her feet, little Shannon is discovered on the doorstep of the YMCA by a man who catches only a glimpse of her mother as she disappears. Bounced among foster homes, Shannon endures abuse and neglect until she finally finds stability with a kind but no-nonsense single mother. Yet Shannon defines life on her terms, and "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 “Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? . . . My life begins at the Y.” So opens Marjorie Celona’s highly acclaimed and exquisitely rendered debut about a wise-beyond-her-years foster child abandoned as a newborn on the doorstep of the local YMCA.