Y
A Contemporary, Cultural, Young Adult book. Vaughn plucks the wishbone from what's left of the chicken and holds it...
"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. Swaddled in a dirty gray sweatshirt with nothing but a Swiss Army knife tucked between her feet, little Shannon is discovered by a man who catches only a glimpse of her troubled mother as she disappears from...
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- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9780571294954 / 0
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She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood". Marjorie Celona, Y // Vaughn plucks the wishbone from what's left of the chicken and holds it out for me to reach. It's the one thing in life he can't predict: who will get the lucky break. Marjorie Celona, Y // YThat perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? Me with my arms outstretched, feet in first position. The chromosome half of us don't have. Second to last in the alphabet: almost there. Coupled with an L, let's make an adverb. A modest X, legs closed. Y or N? Yes, of course. Upside-down peace sign. Little bird tracks in the sand.Y, a Greet letter, joined the Latin alphabet after the Romans conquered Greece in the first century -- a double agent: consonant and vowel. No one used adverbs before...
Y is a very unique and descriptive novel. Marjorie Celona has put her abilities of descriptive writing to great use. While reading this novel, it easy to put yourself in the shoes of the main character and relate to her feelings and emotions towards the struggles she faces in life just because she was abandoned. The main and most important... Y is Marjorie Celona's newly released debut novel. I think you're going to be hearing lots more about this author and title."Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The quetion we ask over and over. Why?"And the Y is where the story begins as well - the YMCA in a town on Vancouver Island. The Y is where... This novel is gorgeously written. It is told from the point of view of Shannon who, as an infant, is abandoned by her birth mother on the steps of a YMCA. But the narrative also explores the incidents leading up to this moment. It's a heart-breaking, aching sort of story in so many ways, but it also forces the reader to examine what...
