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    Audiobook11 hours

    The Break

    Written by Katherena Vermette

    Narrated by Michaela Washburn

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    About this audiobook

    2017 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Literature Finalist
    Winner, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
    Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
    Winner, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
    Winner, McNally Robinson Book of the Year
    A Canada Reads 2017 finalist
    National Bestseller
    2016 Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist
    2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalist
    National Post 99 Best Books of the Year
    CBC Best Canadian Debut Novels 2016
    Globe and Mail Best 100 Books of 2016
    Quill & Quire Book of the Year
    Kobo Best Books of the Year
    Walrus Magazine The Best Books of 2016
    49th Shelf Books of the Year

    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.

    A powerful intergenerational family saga, The Break showcases Vermette’s abundant writing talent and positions her as an exciting new voice in Canadian literature.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHouse of Anansi Press Inc Audio
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9781487004361
    Author

    Katherena Vermette

    KATHERENA VERMETTE is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses Company), won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her NFB short documentary, this river, won the Coup de Coeur at the Montreal First Peoples Festival and a Canadian Screen Award. Her first novel, The Break, is the winner of three Manitoba Book Awards and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Canada Reads.

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    • 5/5
      This is a really amazing book and awesome narrator. A must read.
    • 5/5
      Great book, sad story. I enjoyed listening to this book a lot.
    • 2/5
      The story was contrived, made even less bearable to listen to by the narrator’s putting on a stupid Irish accent when narrating Native American dialogue.