![]() ![]() It is the story of a wife who loves her husband, but not wholly enough to stop longing for her life back in St. It is the story of a mother who has to deny her son that simple wish, and live with that denial. It is the story of a “son” who wants to swim in an orange bathing suit, not trunks. ![]() ![]() Surgically altered at birth and given the name Wayne, only three people know of his secret: his parents and a trusted neighbour.īut as Wayne approaches adulthood, the woman literally buried inside of him, Annabel, refuses to be forgotten. Kathleen Winter’s Annabel was undoubtedly the Canadian book of the year in 2010, when it accomplished the rare feat of being shortlisted for all 3 of Canada’s major literary awards: the Giller, the Governor General’s, and the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction award.Īnnabel tells the story of a child who is born both male and female, in the hyper-masculine hunting culture of 1960’s Labrador. ![]()
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