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Y will be released on September 03, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler will be released on April 03, 2013 in eBook
Apr 03, 2013
Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler is now available in eBook
Apr 03, 2013
Y will be released on January 08, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 08, 2013
Y is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 08, 2013
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Chapter 1 from YDec 23, 2012
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Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction SamplerWe are proud to introduce seven powerful, original, and irresistible novels coming in 2013 from Simon & Schuster: The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Y,...Read More -
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University of Victoria Martlet, March 15, 2013
...offers a glimpse of Victoria that local readers will love • 1/1 Provided Marjorie Celona is the answer to my prayers — a writer from Vancouver Island who doesn’t play it safe. I heard about her debut novel, Y,...
Philadelphia City Paper, February 28, 2013
...wonderful sense of false empowerment.” Not that distance is the only way to avoid sentimentality. A book like Marjorie Celona’s intense Y (Jan. 8, Free Press) goes in precisely the opposite direction, painful and immediate, as it twists together...
Newstalk 1290 CJBK, February 27, 2013
...prize, which gives the winner $7,500, include the Giller long-listed "Y" (Hamish Hamilton Canada) by Vancouver native Marjorie Celona. Ottawa-based Scott Fotheringham is a finalist for "The Rest Is Silence" (Goose Lane Editions), Vancouver's Anakana...
Telegraph, February 21, 2013
...Marjorie Celona's 'Y' is a foundlings tale of abandonment, fate and family 'The wishbone, fork in the road. The question we ask over and over. Why? Such is the interrogative...
Leeds Student Online, February 18, 2013
...Marjorie Celona’s Y is the heart-wrenching journey of Shannon, a Canadian girl abandoned at birth. Shannon tells the story of her life as an unwanted child in a rough part...
Guardian.co.uk, February 15, 2013
...is moved by a poignant exploration of what it means to belong Y by Marjorie Celona 368pp, Faber and Faber, 15.99 Y is the story of Shannon who is abandoned outside a YMCA hours after her birth by her mother, Yula. It is a...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 13, 2013
...An abandoned baby grows into a teenage girl on a mission in this memorable debut novel. "Y" By Marjorie Celona Photo: , Star Tribune photo galleries view larger resize text Email share your name your email recipients email + add a...
University of Victoria Martlet, March 15, 2013
...offers a glimpse of Victoria that local readers will love • 1/1 Provided Marjorie Celona is the answer to my prayers — a writer from Vancouver Island who doesn’t play it safe. I heard about her debut novel, Y,...
Daily News South Africa, March 6, 2013
...by Marjorie Celona (Faber and Faber) Marjorie Celona?s first novel is a bold work that tells the story of a foundling child and her quest for answers. Shannon, known in earlier foster...
Bookseller, January 14, 2013
...Other titles include the "savagely funny and bracingly true" Idiopathy by Sam Byers (Fourth Estate, April); Y by Marjorie Celona (Faber, January), the tale of an abandoned newborn; Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Picador, August), the story of a murder in...
SoldierMod.com, January 14, 2013
..."discovered and championed". THE WATERSTONES 11 Pig's Foot by Carlos Acosta Idiopathy by Sam Byers Y by Marjorie Celona The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence Burial Rites by Hannah Kent The Fields by Kevin Maher The Son by...
Guardian.co.uk, January 14, 2013
...s Foot by Carlos Acosta (Bloomsbury, 30 October) Idiopathy by Sam Byers (Fourth Estate, 25 April) Y by Marjorie Celona (Faber and Faber, 17 January) The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence (Hodder & Stoughton, 31 January) Burial Rites by...
Lovereading, January 14, 2013
...Piece of Passion” from the publisher… ‘It’s one thing to … Download free opening extract 10 Y Marjorie Celona January 2013 Debut of the Month. Why would a mother give up her daughter? Can abandonment ever be an act of love? And...
Idaho Statesman, January 13, 2013
...From Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist to Harry Potter, fictional orphans are lonely, misunderstood, often small and markedly different from the people who raise them, and all haunted by the question: Why? Why am I alone in a world where everyone else seems to...
