Marjorie Celona
Marjorie Celona is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and recipient of the John C. Schupes fellowship. Y is her first novel.
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Marjorie Celona is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and recipient of the John C. Schupes fellowship. Y is her first novel.
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This is a story about a young girl who starts life on the doorstep of the Y, abandoned by her Mother right after being born. We taken on a journey of discovery to find out why Shannon's life started at the Y.There are some squirmy bits in Shannon's life for sure. But there are also some great insi...
There are times that I think it might be a good idea to have warning labels on teen books. When I was an impressionable teen (are there any other kind?) I found myself reading The Bell Jar, a book that spiraled me into a six-month-long depression. (I blame Bell Jar, in any case, for my senior year a...
In the first fifty pages I thought I wouldn't like this book. It seemed to be one quick character sketch after another, but then it became something more. The writing in this book is amazing. The author is a master at subtly changing the voice of the main character as she grows older. The other ...
A baby is abandoned at the Y. Why? Why do people choose the forks in the path that they do? People are so often incapable of recognising choices. They lack a perceptual awareness of their own abilities to influence their own course through their life. The novel follows the story of the abandoned...
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