Annabel

--A "New York Times" Editors' Choice
--A "Kirkus Reviews" 2011 Top 25 Best in Fiction title
--Short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction, Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
--Finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
--Winner of the Independent Literary GLBTQ Award
--A "Quill & Quire" Top Book of the Year
--A #1 "Macleans" best seller "Utterly original . . . A haunting story of family, identity, and the universal yearning to belong."--"O, The Oprah Magazine " "[Winter's] lyrical voice and her crystalline landscape are enchanting."--"The New Yorker" "Absorbing, earnest . . . Beautifully written."--"The New York Times Book Review" "Affecting . . . Winter possesses a rare blend of lyrical brilliance, descriptive power, and psychological and philosophical insight. Her way with fate and sadness recalls The World According to Garp, without the cute irony. A compelling, gracefully written novel about mixed gender that sheds insight as surely as it rejects sensationalism. This book announces the arrival of a major writer."--"Kirkus Reviews "(starred review) "A novel about secrets and silences . . . What Winter has achieved here is no less a miracle than the fact of Wayne's birth. Read it because it's a story told with sensitivity to language that compels to the last page, and read it because it asks the most existential of questions. Stripped of the trappings of gender, Winter asks, what are we?"--"The Globe and Mail" "Stunning . . . "Annabel" is less about gender divides and more about the gossamer lines that connect one to another. A book like this, its topic and beautiful language, the unrelenting sorrow, Winter's insightful characterizations and utter sensitivity, is difficult to do justice to with these few words. I simply want to tell people: read this book. Read it though you know little or nothing about its subject or the author. It will open you up. It wi