Kathleen Winter: 4 books

From the author of Annabel: A “compulsively readable” journey through the Canadian arctic that “lay[s] bare the beauty of both the world and the soul” (Globe and Mail).   In 2010, Kathleen Winter embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians,...

A Library Journal Key Indie Fiction Title, Fall 2014A BBC.com Book to Read for October, 2014Meet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time. Meet a Zamboni...

An “absorbing . . . beautifully written” debut about the trials of growing up unique in a restrictive environment (The New York Times Book Review). In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a child is born—a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people...

What are boys and men thinking? That's what the wry, observant, heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know. What are they thinking when they warn women against adventure, gulp ale in moonlit truck wrecks, steal their fingers down their nurses' thighs, tell their little...