![]() ![]() Together with his father, Wayne builds a small bridge over a creek. His father, Treadway, begins to question whether Wally is a good influence on Wayne and wants him to be more boyish. ![]() Lost in his superficial world of being a girl, he begins a friendship with classmate Wally. Puberty sets in and there is a medical emergency – Wayne's abdomen fills with menstrual blood. He is she, and they are a fluid, pastel contradiction in a rigid, black and white world. Wayne heads into the bush with his father, but at home he dreams of synchronized swimming and begs for a sequined bathing suit. His is a masculine world of men who trap for a living, and a father who decided to name him "Wayne" and raise him as male – but his shadow self, Annabel, the name his mother and her best friend Thomasina whisper when they are alone, will live within him for two decades. He is intersex – a word unfamiliar to the midwife present at his birth, and to his stoic father and his fanciful mother – with both penis and vagina. ![]() Annabel is a 2010 novel by Canada-based author Kathleen Winter.Ī baby is born in 1968, in far-from-everywhere Croydon Harbour, Labrador, Canada. ![]()
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