The break
Vermette, Katherena, 1977-2017
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Stella, a young Métis 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 Métis policeman caught between two worlds.
Main title:
The break / Katherena Vermette.
Author:
Vermette, Katherena, 1977-, author
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2017.
Collation:
352 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Canada: House of Anansi Press, 2016.
ISBN:
9781786493880 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6GF
LC class:
PR9199.4
Local class:
FIC
Language:
English
BRN:
2161155