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THE BREAK
A Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for the Governor's General Fiction Award 2016
When Stella, a young mother, looks out her window one evening and spots a young girl 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 the fateful night. Through their various perspectives, a larger more comprehensive story about the lives, conditions and circumstances of a marginalized community is exposed.
While THE BREAK centers around one particular native community in Canada, it has many universals that readers from all over will be curious about, and in some cases, may even identify with, such as, female violence; teen gangs; poverty; violence; drug and alcohol abuse; assimilation.The closely-observered world of poor and powerless families, particularly the women in those families and their desire to overcome their upbringing, makes for compelling reading, and it's a perspective that can be found in both Vermette's and Ferrante's novels.
WAS IN JENER NACHT GESCHAH
Deutsch von Kathrin Razum
[HC btb 03/19; TB Btb 07/2021]
Shortlisted for the Governor's General Fiction Award 2016
When Stella, a young mother, looks out her window one evening and spots a young girl 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 the fateful night. Through their various perspectives, a larger more comprehensive story about the lives, conditions and circumstances of a marginalized community is exposed.
While THE BREAK centers around one particular native community in Canada, it has many universals that readers from all over will be curious about, and in some cases, may even identify with, such as, female violence; teen gangs; poverty; violence; drug and alcohol abuse; assimilation.The closely-observered world of poor and powerless families, particularly the women in those families and their desire to overcome their upbringing, makes for compelling reading, and it's a perspective that can be found in both Vermette's and Ferrante's novels.
WAS IN JENER NACHT GESCHAH
Deutsch von Kathrin Razum
[HC btb 03/19; TB Btb 07/2021]
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Published 2016-09-01 by House of Anansi Press |