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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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3.5 rounded up. I really like the way the novel put the relationship between ray/colin and colin's mom/dad in parallel with each other. but I did not super care for the narration style, which felt very "tell not show." overall I liked the film versio ...more
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