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Musician and writer Tegan Quin champions The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor

The Cure for Drowning is a historical fiction novel that follows Kit McNair, who was born Kathleen to an Irish farming family in Ontario — but they don't fit in with the expectations set out for them. When Rebekah, a German Canadian doctor's daughter comes to town, she, Kit and Kit's older brother, Landon, find themselves in a love triangle that tears their families apart. All three of them separate and join different war efforts but all eventually return home — and are each forced to move on with their lives.

Loghan Paylor’s The Cure for Drowning centres untold queer and trans stories in Canadian history
"The thing I'm fixated on the most right now, as I'm thinking about defending the book, is how little [queer] representation we have from that time period in history and how poignant and moving and thrilling it is to imagine it like that," said Quin in an interview with CBC Books.