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Cardinal divide / Nina Newington.

by Newington, Nina, 1958-

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Chicago ; Buffalo ; Guernica Editions, 2020.

Transgender people -- Fiction.

Indigenous peoples -- Fiction.

Adopted children -- Fiction.

Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Essential prose series ; 172.

9781771834421 (trade pbk.)

439 p. ; 23 cm.

"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 center 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"--Publisher.

Canadian fiction.

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