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Annabel
by Kathleen Winter

In the far north-east of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby neither fully boy nor girl. Three adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne, who will carry inside him a shadow self he'll call Annabel.
Haunting and sweeping in scope, this is a first novel as much concerned with its characters as it is with their predicament, as much about humanity as it is about a rigidly masculine culture that shuns the singular and the unique. Told with great elegance and empathy, "Annabel" is the powerfully moving story of one person's struggle to discover the truth and the strength to change, to find tenderness in a severe and unforgiving land.

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