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Y

By Marjorie Celona
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“Celona adroitly confounds many of our expectations…[She] is compassionate toward even her most wayward characters, figuring wisely that the consequences of their actions will be punishment enough…It’s refreshing to read a novel in which questions are not so much answered as extended, and Shannon is an appealing narrator, partly because she doesn’t feel sorry for herself, at least not for long, or blame others for her struggles.”

New York Times

With her powerful debut novel, author Marjorie Celona has made a mark with critics and listeners everywhere. In Y, Shannon is abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of a local YMCA. Taken into the foster-care system, she endures years of abuse. But her luck finally changes when she's sent to live with a kind single mom named Miranda. Even so, Shannon remains haunted by a burning question: why did her birth mother leave her on the very day she was born?