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In 1968, in a small, closed hunting-and-fishing community on the wild coast of Labrador, Canada, a baby is born who is neither entirely a boy nor entirely a girl, but both. Only three people share the secret: the parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and their close neighbor Thomasina. They decide to raise the child as a boy named Wayne, yet Wayne is always accompanied by the shadow of the girl within him, whom he calls Annabel.
To his father's dismay, Wayne struggles to fit into the rugged male world of hunters, while the two women quietly nurture his feminine side, and his confusion deepens as he grows up. Annabel is a moving, sweeping story of one person's struggle to discover the truth in a culture that cannot easily accept contradictions: a compassionate, wise novel about a life not painted in black and white.
This is the Hebrew edition of Annabel, translated by Katia Benovitz.