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Y by Marjorie Celona audiobook

Y: A Novel

By Marjorie Celona
Read by Erin Moon

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10.29 Hours • Unabridged
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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?

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Shortlisted for the 2013 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize

Selected for the January 2013 Indie Next List

A Kirkus Reviews “New and Notable Title” in January 2013

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?

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Editorial Reviews

“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
“Y is a beautiful, moving book that explores what it takes to belong from a new author with a voice that is bold, sure footed, and confident.” —Guardian (London)
“A gorgeous, moving debut…[Shannon] emerges as a character of enormous strength, a survivor who is unflappably honest about her shortcomings…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.” —Boston Globe
“A feat of storytelling. It will leave you raw but softened, carrying a brutal reminder that family is both made and given, something we must endure and embrace.” —Dallas Morning News
“A double-strand novel about a Vancouver Island foundling and the young mother who left her on the steps of the Y…Celona pulls off this sleight-of-narrative in blunt, tamped-down prose that is worthy of comparison to [Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina]. The scenes are swift and clear, the transitions are well-cued and the reader’s sympathies adhere easily to Shannon’s lonely, stubborn efforts to squirm into a safe place in the world.” —Shelf Awareness
“Thoughtfully redemptive.” —Wall Street Journal
“An effervescent debut…A meditation on loss, identity, and family, Y showcases a tenacious young writer as she schools us in compassion and ultimately cleans house.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

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Author Bio: Marjorie Celona

Author Bio: Marjorie Celona

Marjorie Celona received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the John C. Schupes fellowship. Her stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train, and Harvard Review. Born and raised on Vancouver Island, she lives in Cincinnati.

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Available Formats : CD
Runtime: 10.29
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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