![]() ![]() Only Thomasina, a worldly, free-spirited midwife who privately calls the child Annabel-after the daughter she lost in a freak boating accident that also claimed her husband-asserts that nature should be allowed to take its course: "That baby is all right the way it is. John's, is torn over quashing his female qualities and interests but wants even less to go against the wishes of his closed-off father, Treadway, a trapper away for months at a time. His mother, Jacinta, a cosmopolitan-minded outsider from the city of St. Joining a select group of novels including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex (2002) and Alan Friedman's Hermaphrodeity (1972), Winter's affecting first novel is the story of Wayne Blake, who is subjected to special corrective surgery as a newborn, raised as a boy and given injections and hormone pills to maintain his masculine traits. In a remote coastal town in Newfoundland in the 1970s, a young person of mixed gender struggles for identity, acceptance and understanding ![]()
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