The break Katherena Vermette
- Bib ID:
- 10016645
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Vermette, Katherena, 1977-
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of Queensland
- Description:
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- [St Lucia, Qld.] University of Queensland Press 2024
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 3.4MB
- ISBN:
- 9780702269554
- Series:
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- Vermette, Katherena 1977-. Strangers 1.
- Strangers.
- Summary:
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International bestseller The Break is the first in Katherena Vermette's heart-rending, utterly immersive Indigenous family saga that includes The Strangers and The Circle, now in B-format with a series tie-in cover.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. But when they arrive, no one is there; scuff marks in the compacted snow are the only sign anything may have happened.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.(supplied)
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- Title from PDF cover page (viewed on 25 January 2024)
- Subject:
- Family life -- Fiction
- Genre/Form:
- Electronic books
- Other authors/contributors:
- Vermette, Katherena 1977-
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2024
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