Torn Symmetry

A lyrical work of literary fiction set in 1990s British Columbia, Torn Symmetry explores identity, abandonment, and belonging through the eyes of an intersex child in search of love and acceptance.

Clover Nelson has always lived on the margins. Abandoned as an infant for reasons no one would explain, he grows up at Whispering Hearts Orphanage—isolated, ridiculed, and quietly carrying a secret that marks him as different.

Everything changes when he meets Ethan, a boy from privilege who offers...