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The break

Vermette, Katherena, 1977- author

Overview

Stella, a young Metis mother, lives with her family by the Break, an isolated strip of land on the edge of their small Canadian town. Glancing out of her window one winter's evening Stella spots someone in trouble; horrified, she calls the police. But when they arrive, no one is there, scuff marks in the compacted snow the only sign anything may have happened.What follows is a heartbreaking and powerful tale of a community in crisis as the people connected to the victim, a young girl on the edge of a precipice, begin to lay bare their stories leading up to that fateful night. From Lou, a social worker grappling with the end of a relationship, to Cheryl, an artist mourning the premature death of her sister. And from Phoenix, a homeless teenager released from a youth detention centre with no one to turn to, to Officer Scott, a Metis policeman caught between two worlds. Through the prism of one extended, intergenerational family, Vermette's urgent story shines a light on the power, violence and love shared between women of all cultures, creeds and ages.

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Subject: Métis women Fiction. / Métis Fiction. / Families Fiction. / Indigenous women Fiction. / Young women Violence against Fiction. / Métis. / Winnipeg (Man.) Fiction. / Canada. / Canada Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781786493880, 1786493888, 9781786493897, 1786493896

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9199.4.V474 B74 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE