The Break
A GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2018
Crime Book of the Month, Sunday Times, February 2018
'I loved this... very tough and very real.' - Margaret Atwood
When Stella, a young mother in an Indigenous community, looks out her window one wintry evening and spots someone being attacked on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police. By the time help arrives, all that is left of the struggle is blood on the snow. As the search for the victim intensifies, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night, uncovering secrets and resentments long buried and giving blazing testimony to the lived reality of people pushed out to the coldest edges of modern Canada.
Katherena Vermette is a Metis writer from Treaty One territory, Winnipeg, Canada. Her first book, North End Love Songs, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 2013. Her novel The Break was a bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards, including the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Ms Vermette's second book of poetry, river woman, will be published in the fall of 2018. In film, her documentary, this river, won the 2017 Canadian Screen Award for Best Short.
Author: Katherena Vermette
Format: Paperback, 368 pages, 130mm x 200mm, 350 g
Published: 2018, Atlantic Books, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
A GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2018
Crime Book of the Month, Sunday Times, February 2018
'I loved this... very tough and very real.' - Margaret Atwood
When Stella, a young mother in an Indigenous community, looks out her window one wintry evening and spots someone being attacked on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police. By the time help arrives, all that is left of the struggle is blood on the snow. As the search for the victim intensifies, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night, uncovering secrets and resentments long buried and giving blazing testimony to the lived reality of people pushed out to the coldest edges of modern Canada.
Katherena Vermette is a Metis writer from Treaty One territory, Winnipeg, Canada. Her first book, North End Love Songs, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 2013. Her novel The Break was a bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards, including the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Ms Vermette's second book of poetry, river woman, will be published in the fall of 2018. In film, her documentary, this river, won the 2017 Canadian Screen Award for Best Short.