The Vancouver Sun calls The Mitochondrial Curiosities of Marcels 1-19 'astonishing'

'Every now and then, a novel that is as solid as steel lands in readers' hands. A novel needs the right proportion of its own hardening agents to deliver on the page. The Mitochondrial Curiosities of Marcels 1-19 is such a book ... Jocelyn Brown's young-adult novel and its characters possess a firm cell structure, hip-swinging hilarity and the full range of emotional rotation. The story crescendos with grief and crocheting, yet despite the cavorting high notes, manages to suffuse sufficient low notes so that sadness nests beside a pain in the reader's left lung from laughing so hard ... This is a novel where even the secondary characters rebound off the page with the immediacy of a just-pumped ball ... Brown's prose is astonishing. The Edmonton writer has a dynamic curve with words, yet their placement is precise and as disciplined as a tightrope walker. Her witty extrapolation captures the stultifying experience of having your parent, flawed or otherwise, ripped from your life just as you're launching toward independence.

Launch this book at your teen, young adult or an adult reader -- it's easily a crossover book -- and be very excited about the arrival of a major Canadian writer.'