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Annabel (2010)

by Kathleen Winter(Favorite Author)

2.91 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0887842364 (ISBN13: 9780887842368)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

House of Anansi Press

review 1: Really enjoyed this book, really rounded characters which was focus rather than plot. It also avoided the more obvious plot lines. Perhaps At end it felt a bit un resolved and perhaps could have had the loose end tied up but at the end of the day I don’t think that was the point of the book. the main character is Annabel, an intersex baby – one testicle, a penis, one ovary, a womb and a vagina, – is born to Jacinta. It's 1968, and she lives in a remote Canadian hamlet with her husband, Treadway, a trapper of few words but strong principles. It is he who decides that the child will be brought up as a boy,the book follows the young Wayne unwittingly starts life as a boy with, as he puts it later on, a girl curled up inside him.
review 2: I loved it! I was... more tring to read the Canada Reads finalists in the order they were exclused; and of course by the time I finished this one I wondered why it didn't win? Then I read the last two and I guess I see why. They were all such powerful books. This one had me enchanted from the very beginning! There is an ethereal quality to the narrative, something about the pale winter sunshine and the blue of the sky she describes in Labrador filter through the entire book, even in its darkest moments. It was wonderful! Funny, touching, heart-breaking, horrifying, ... adorable! I loved the swimsuit story and Treadway tring to drive in the big city where he was trying to drive ... and the letters from Europe, and the point at which someone sings the alto part to something ... sorry, no spoilers. Lovely book! less

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