Intersex births are considerably more common in real life than in fiction, and Montreal-based Winter has followed up her Metcalf-Rooke Award–winning short story collection BoYs with a thoughtful treatment of this rarely discussed topic. For mature readers, try Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin, Annabel by Kathleen Winter, or Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginedes.A universal concern – the importance of self-determination – takes a highly specific form in Kathleen Winter’s first novel, the story of an intersex child born in a remote coastal Labrador village in 1968. If you like this, try this: Alex as Well by Alyssa Brugman. Fans of stories about high school friendship and/or relationship drama. Anyone who has ever felt uncomfortable in their own skin. Who will like this book?: Readers of LGBTQ fiction. The story leads to some wonderfully unexpected places and will have you thinking more carefully about what it really means to be a girl or a guy, all or none of the above. Readers will root for Kristin to overcome the struggles brought on by her diagnosis, while also learning more about intersex people and the lives they lead. This riveting book by debut author Gregorio, a surgeon who based Kristin on a patient she had early in her training, brings this rarely-discussed condition to light. She stands to lose everything she believes make her who she was and feels that she has no way to get a handle on who she is now. Dealing with this diagnosis would be challenge enough, but when her classmates find out, the intolerance of many of her friends sends Kristin on a downward spiral. While she has the outward appearance and features of a woman, Kristin’s internal anatomy and chromosomes are male. But when their experience turns out to be one of intense pain for Kristin, she goes to the doctor and learns a shocking truth that turns her life inside out – she is intersex.
Kristin had already planned for that night to be special – she and her boyfriend Sam had decided to become intimate. No one is surprised when she is voted Homecoming Queen – except for Kristin herself and her best friend Vee who was convinced the crown was hers.
She has a wonderful father, great friends and a beloved boyfriend who mean the world to her. She’s a star athlete with a full track and field scholarship awaiting her once she finishes senior year of high school. Summary: Kristin Lattimer takes things in stride – literally.
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