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Paperback. 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? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
Why would a mother give up her daughter?
Can abandonment ever be an act of love?
And could you ever forgive her?
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571305476
SKU
V9780571305476
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About Faber & Faber
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 ... Read more
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