Annabel
Author: Kathleen Winter
A #1 best seller in Canada, award-winning author Kathleen Winter’s debut novel is an intimate portrait of the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a remote, blue-collar sea-side town in Eastern Canada.In 1968, into the devastating, beautiful landscape of Labrador, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only three….Read More
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