Cardinal divide / Nina Newington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newington, Nina, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Brown, Lindsay (Editor), editor.

Series:

Essential prose series ; 172.

Essential prose series ; 172

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Fiction.

Trans people.

Indigenous peoples--Fiction.

Indigenous peoples.

Transgender people.

Adopted children--Fiction.

Adopted children.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

439 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Chicago ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2020.

Summary:

"A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It's complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is indigenous. But is she? How can she find out? Her need to know leads her down dangerous roads. Cardinal Divide is full of voices rarely heard in fiction. It explores the hunger for certainty and the mutability of identity, whether of gender, race or sexuality. Authenticity isn't simple. Acting as somebody else is simultaneously a way to deceive and to explore the world. Characters who pass as male, as white, as straight, straddle the cardinal divides. And then, sometimes, passing is becoming."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Lindsay Brown, editor"--Title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Newington, Nina, 1958- Cardinal divide.

ISBN:

9781771834421

1771834420

OCLC:

1113941638