Book description
'My life begins at the Y...' Abandoned as a newborn at the doors of
the local YMCA and then bounced between foster homes, Shannon
eventually finds stability in the home of Miranda, a single mother
with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her
questions. Will she ever belong? Who is her true family? And why
would her parents abandon Shannon on the day she was born?
The answers lie in the heartrending tale of her mother, a
headstrong young woman trapped in a series of events that will
change her life forever.
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. In recent years, she has been the Olive B. O'Connor fellow
at Colgate University and writer-in-residence at Hawthornden Castle in
Scotland. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired
Reading, Harvard Review, Glimmer Train, and Crazyhorse, amongst others.
Born and raised on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, she now lives
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
