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Alanna Why is a fiction and culture writer from Ottawa. She is the author of the novella Amy Of Suburbia, about a 12-year-old girl’s obsession with Green Day. Her book reviews have appeared in Canthius, PRISM and Minola Review, as well as in her newsletter, Why’s World. She currently lives in Montreal.

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Amy of Suburbia

4.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions

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Alanna Why liked Sara Hughes's review of Yesteryear: "Read for my work book club. When I first read the premise for this I had hoped it would be a fun, literal time travel story - a performative modern trad wife has to actually go back to the 1800s and be a trad wife and hilarity ensues. I found out qui" Read more of this review »
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