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Sep 17, 2016 · The Break is the first novel by Canadian poet, film-maker and award-winning author, Katherena Vermette. Late one cold February night, a small-town Canadian Police Department gets a 911 call. Stella McGregor, a young Metis wife and mother, is witnessing an assault on a stretch of land known as The Break, adjacent to her home.
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.
May 20, 2022 · Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory in Winnipeg. She won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs, and...
The Break By Katherena Vermette A stunning and heartbreaking debut novel by Governor General’s Literary Award–winning Métis poet Katherena Vermette about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
- Katherena Vermette
Feb 2, 2017 · 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...
Sep 17, 2016 · 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...
The Break is the first novel by the Canadian author Katherena Vermette published in 2016 by House of Anansi Press. [1] The book tells the story of Stella, a Métis woman, who witnesses a crime in "The Break", a barren stretch of hydro land near her house in the North End neighbourhood of Winnipeg. [2]
Sep 17, 2016 · Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
- Katherena Vermette
Sep 23, 2016 · Katherena Vermette, winner of the 2013 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry, deftly crosses genres into the world of prose with her new novel, The Break.
"Katherena Vermette's poignant novel, set in Winnipeg's North End, opens with a violent crime that becomes the backdrop for a story of great depth and compassion. This masterfully written narrative shifts among the intergenerational voices of the women of one extended Indigenous family.
