The Break

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katherena vermette's novel The Break was defended by Candy Palmater on Canada Reads 2017. The Break was nominated for multiple awards, including the Governor General's Literary Awards, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won three awards at the 2017 Manitoba Book Awards. Nach und nach enthüllt sich ein düsteres Bild der Familie Traverse. Wer hier einen polizeilichen Ermittlungskrimi erwartet, liegt falsch. Viel mehr geht es darum die Hintergründe der Tat zu beleuchten. Es geht um starke Frauen ( die weiß Gott stark sein müssen), Männer kommen in diesem Buch nicht gut weg. Es ist aus mehreren vorwiegend weiblichen Sichtweisen geschrieben, es bleiben immer Geheimnisse unausgesprochen, manches muss sich der Leser zwischen den Zeilen selbst erarbeiten. Da lohnt sich aber das aufmerksame Lesen. It’s unrelenting and it’s horrific and it was hard to put down. Even the “bad guys” aren’t all bad when you know how they got here. Katherena Vermette (she/her/hers) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She has worked in poetry, novels, children’s literature, and film.

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But this is no ordinary holiday home – it contains a dark and disturbing secret. Because Karen isn’t alone here – someone is watching her. Waiting for the right moment to spring the trap and plunge her into a nightmare she’ll never forget. Vermette is skilled at writing with a language that is conversational and comfortable and with a poetic ease that makes the hard things easier to swallow. The result is a book that is at times emotionally demanding, funny, suspenseful, and always engaging." - Winnipeg Review It sounds interesting, but the story puts all its weight on the reveal... and it is too easy to guess. And I don't mean just guess who is responsible, but also guess the entire reasoning behind it. The pool of suspects is too small; there are so few characters in the book, and many readers will be immediately suspicious of the culprit (honestly, they seem shady as hell). The birth of 'white' republics and the demise of Greater Britain: the republican referendums in South Africa and Rhodesia - Christian D. PedersenRowan has just given birth to Lila. She and her husband have hired June to babysit part time. Rowan is having a difficult time since the birth. She feels unsettled, and it’s getting worse. She believes June has done some horrible things, and when June turns up missing, Rowan is now the key suspect. Only she knows what really happened, or does she?

The Break: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

Persistence and privilege: mass migration from Britain to the Commonwealth, 1945-2000 - Jean P. Smith The climate crisis, state-sanctioned racism, the long coils of colonialism . . . These are among just a few of the harsh realities Julietta Singh confronts in The Breaks, a book-length epistolary essay written to her 6-year-old daughter, that also interrogates what it means to be a queer, brown parent in contemporary America. But despite myriad catastrophes, both personal and political, Singh finds reasons for hope in the possibility of community.” —Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub It's a powerful book and one I'm very glad to have read. My lone peeve, though, was the incessant use of the F-word.🤬 I'm sure the author wanted the dialogue to be a true reflection of the current lexicon, but I found it unnecessarily repetitive. I mean, it was used many hundreds of times— so often it became distracting! And it's just such an ugly, offensive word.😝 I know a reader—and I'm sure there are others—who abandoned the book as its continual use became just too annoying to continue. However, aside from the one minor complaint, I thought The Break was an excellent book, and soon I'll be reading the sequel: ( The Strangers). Overall, I give the book...Singh contemplates how she and her daughter can live ethically in our current social and political systems, and how they can change them. Taking up race, physical vulnerability, queer parenting, and more, The Breaks is a wide-ranging, invigorating mix of memoir and cultural critique.” —Book Riot

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While the violent characters in the novel are despicable, it is a testament to Vermette’s skill that they also appear pitiable. The Break is a condemnation of reprehensible individual behaviour, but also of a broader society incapable of dealing effectively with problems of addiction, poverty, homelessness, and despair. Vermette isn’t laying blame: she simply details the tragedy of cultural loss, prejudice, family breakdown, and violence for her readers to assess. When Shawn Mooney first came on the Reading Envy Podcast in January 2017, he discussed this book. That episode is even named after a quote from the book.

The characters were depicted exceptionally well. Karen's exhaustion and frustration as well as Peter's feelings of guilt were palpable. But Eve's raging anger flared out like an inferno making one dread whatever was to come next. While Eve's actions may come across as extreme, the story is a fine example of how revenge turns into an all-consuming poison while forgiveness goes a long way in healing and mending relationships. Karen is a busy mother between work, her husband and her two children. When it all gets too much Karen knows But in this time of joy, Rowan can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right. She feels dread. She’s breaking. Fiction is capable of helping us to comprehend difference and otherness, and The Break offers clear insight into people struggling to secure a place in the world." -Candace Fertile "Quill and Quire "

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After mulling over it for several days, The Break seems slightly weaker to me in retrospect than it did while I was reading it. Karen, an overworked mother and wife, is constantly running ragged trying to balance home and work while also dealing with a crumbling marriage. At the end of her tether, Karen decides to go on a solo staycation to a holiday home, recommended by a so-called friend. As she recharges during her mini vacation while her husband Peter fumbles through the daily chores and childcare, little do they know that their every move is being watched by someone who has sworn to take the whole family down.Karen is a married woman and mother of two. her boys are super energetic and her marriage is facing some problems, witch both are draining her out so when her friend Eve suggests that she could spend a day solo in a holiday house, she is more than happy to accept. but one thing she doesn't know is that someone is watching her. but who? why? and in the end, was it worth it for Karen to take this one day off? Piercing and profound. . . . For all the breaks and fractures, there are also the continuities and the flows. The Breaks is a gift for posterity—for others who may treasure it and take its vital, urgent message to heart.” —Sana Goyal, Brixton Review In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected with the victim 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. ( From House of Anansi Press)