Stories about intersex individuals are not yet mainstream subject matter, and were even less in the social consciousness when Winter wrote Annabel. “I kept thinking about that and wondering if I wanted to try to write a short story about this idea.The more I read the more I became surprised that decisions were made on the behalf of babies about which gender to be and that is how the story went from there,” says Winter. The reason for the odd job and odd hours was the person in question was intersex and was transitioning from one gender to another and wanted to avoid unwanted attention. An acquaintance of Winter's mentioned that they had recently befriended a young person who was working delivering meat door to door at dusk.
The novel, Annabel, started off as a short story sparked by a conversation over afternoon tea. The program is organized by Libraries Nova Scotia with the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. One Book Nova Scotia is a province-wide initiative for adults to read (or listen) and discuss the same book. “There's almost nothing harder than having to live a different identity than the one you feel you actually personify,” says Kathleen Winter when discussing her first novel, a novel that, although published eight years ago, has such relevance to the social issues of today that it was chosen as the One Book Nova Scotia selection for 2018.
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