The break
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.
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Métis > Fiction. Violent crimes > Fiction. Canadian fiction. Winnipeg (Man.) > Fiction. |
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- ISBN: 9781487001117
- Physical Description 352 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.
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General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. |
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