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Annabel by kathleen winter5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Winter does a great job depicting the joys and terrors of being a gender non-conforming kid she delicately and insightfully deals with a lot of the issues of shame about the gendered and sexual body that her protagonist has to confront. After slogging through this nearly 500-page novel, I have to say: it could have been worse, but it certainly could have been better.įor the most part, Annabel resists the temptation to sensationalize the life of Wayne/Annabel, the main character. ![]() On the other hand, I knew that the possibility was probably relatively high that this exploration by a (straight cisgendered) writer who isn’t intersex might be disrespectful and/or inaccurate. On the one hand, I was excited to be able to read and feature this book on my blog, since intersex characters are so rarely explored in literature and this was the first instance I had come across in Canadian fiction. I was optimistic yet skeptical when I picked up Kathleen Winter’s novel Annabel, which features an intersex protagonist from Labrador. ![]()
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