The break / Katherena Vermette.
Publication details: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2018.Description: 352 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760632274 (paperback)
- 2000-2099
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Métis -- Fiction
- Victims of violent crimes -- Fiction
- Recollection (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Psychic trauma -- Fiction
- Community life -- Fiction
- Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Metis -- Fiction
- Indigenous women -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Witnesses -- Fiction
- Families -- History -- Fiction
- Crime -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Fiction
- Canadian fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Suspense fiction
- Canadian fiction - 21st century
- Winnipeg (Man.) - Fiction
- Metis - Canada - Fiction
- Families - Canada - Winnipeg - Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Suspense fiction
- Canadian fiction -- 21st century
- Interpersonal relations -- Canada -- Fiction
- Manitoba -- Winnipeg
- Winnipeg (Man.) -- Fiction
- 813.6 23
- PS8643 E74 B74 2018
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | VER | Available | 068291 |
First published in Canada in 2016 by House of Anansi Press. --Title page verso.
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives of the residents in Winnipeg?s North End is exposed.