Winter’s novel could not be more different from her first book of fiction, BoYs, a collection of 24 vignettes about small-town life on Canada’s East Coast. Just below his skin is a shadow-self, a little girl he thinks of as “Annabel.” Although, on the surface, Wayne Blake seems like an ordinary Labrador boy, he is a hermaphrodite, combining a perfect balance of male and female sexual characteristics. It is also a singular exploration of sexual identity. Figuratively, it’s a coming-of-age story tracing the passage from birth to adulthood of a character named Wayne Blake. Literally, it explores the remote coastal region of Labrador. House of Anansi Press $32.95 hardcover 472pp 9780887842368Kathleen Winter’s debut novel Annabel is a journey which succeeds on multiple levels.
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