A review by sjklass
Y by Marjorie Celona

4.0

"Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why?" Why was she abandoned,as an hours old newborn, on the front steps of the Y-MCA? An unsentimental novel chronicling Shannon's life in foster care and as a teenager and her search for her birth parents, interspersed with chapters of Yula and Harrison's life leading up to the birth of the abandoned protagonist. Set in downtown Victoria, BC, I found myself looking up the locations on Google maps but it was the characters Miranda and Lydia Rose, Quinn and Vaughn that made the book come alive. Fantastic! Can't wait to read this gifted writer's next book! When Marjorie, when?