Description

Kathleen Winter’s luminous debut novel is just a deeply affecting portrait of life within an charming beach city and the trials of growing up distinctive in a limited setting. In 1968, in to the disastrous, extra environment of the rural coastal community of Labrador, Canada, a young child exists: an infant who seems to be neither fully son or fully woman, but both at the same time. Just three individuals are aware of the secret—the baby’s parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a reliable friend and midwife, Thomasina. The ladies continue steadily to silently foster the boy’s feminine aspect, although Treadway makes the hard choice to boost the kid as a son called David.