"Annabel deals with the birth of an intersex baby in rural Newfoundland in 1968. The baby's parents make the difficult decision to raise the child as a boy named Wayne, keeping his feminine side a lifelong secret in the rigidly defined masculine culture. But as Wayne grows up, he can't entirely ignore the feminine presence in his identity. Annabel is an unforgettable novel about one person's struggle to discover the truth in a culture that shuns contradiction."
(CBC, Canada Reads with Sheelagh Rogers, Jan 15, 2014)
