Annabel, written by Canadian author Kathleen Winter, depicts life of a hermaphrodite born in Labrador, Canada, and how he explores his feminine side since he is raised as a boy and learns to accept who he really is. I was firstly attracted by the content of the novel while I was reading the summary of it, a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once; and his father makes the difficult decision to raise him as a boy named Wayne. It makes me wonder how his or her life is since I’m always curious about the type of person I never know or meet in real life, so I chose it as my ISU novel. The plots of the novel are easy to follow at first, but as an increasing number of characters introduced and switch between one period