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Publisher:House of Anansi Press, 2010Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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Long download timeRunning Time: 11:24 hrsNarrator: Tandy CronynPublisher:Recorded Books, 2011
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- Author: Winter, KathleenDate:Created2010Summary:
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as "Annabel" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. Haunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Annabel is a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction. Now featuring a preview of Kathleen Winter's latest nonfiction work, Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
Genre:Subject(s): Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador | Gender identity | Intersex children | Intersex people--Identity | Intersex peopleOriginal Publisher: [S.l.], House of Anansi Press IncLanguage(s): EnglishCollection(s)/Series: One Book Nova Scotia 2018