Marjorie Celona’s debut weaves the twin stories of a foster child’s search for home and the raw account of her mother’s decision to abandon her newborn. Y is an evocative look into what makes a family, and what makes a home, and how they are undeniably helixed together.”Released on: Septem. Marjorie Celona writes with an empathy that manages to be both enveloping and exact. How a Woman Becomes a Lake is about what it’s like to long for your most secret self to be understood, while fearing that such understanding might kill you. It is a feral, echoing, complicatedly vulnerable work of art.”. Marjorie Celona's Y:A Novel is simultaneously jostling, sad, and hopeful. Shannon tells both her story, and the story of her parents and her birth. The alternation between Shannon's current life and the time leading up to her birth works well, and I wasn't sure it would when I first started reading the book/5(91).
Marjorie Celona (born January 7, ) is an American-Canadian writer. Their debut novel, Y, published in , won the Waterstones 11 literary prize and was a shortlisted nominee for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the www.doorway.ru First Novel Award and a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.. Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Celona studied. Y. by Marjorie Celona pp, Faber and Faber, Y is the story of Shannon who is abandoned outside a YMCA hours after her birth by her mother, Yula. It is a book animated by questions 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.
“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. Y. by Marjorie Celona pp, Faber and Faber, Y is the story of Shannon who is abandoned outside a YMCA hours after her birth by her mother, Yula. It is a book animated by questions in. Y: A Novel by Celona, Marjorie and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru
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