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Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ? particularly through language as it lives inside the body ? that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. 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One cannot simply tread the surface of its open invitation. There are many layers here below the poetic surface, and Vermette is singer-guide to the true depths of this river. It’s a work to be read, shared, and read again.” — Liz Howard, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection \u003cem\u003eInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eriver woman\u003c\/em\u003e, Vermette take us inside river, as a concept, a reality, and another world, and gently reveals the power, the resistance, and the sheer love of water, of life, and of all things Indigenous. Vermette’s poetics are sparse, haunting, and steeped in river story, and her poems come to me as river songs. There is a presencing rhythm to this work, revealing that which is and always has been, flowing right in front of us.” — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Accident of Being Lost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eriver woman\u003c\/em\u003e, Katherena Vermette marshals the maternal energy of the river to spin the lyric poem into something that is awash with vitality. This ethic of care, which each section bears and ricochets about, has at its core a project of repair or nourishment, not just of the natural, but of those of us entangled with it. This us, Vermette deftly shows, is not an empty thing, but is instead teeming with Indigenous life — ‘we are the earth you are hurting.’ We are the river and, in this, we are without end, regardless of what history swells in us. Pick up this book and listen for the musicality of our beautiful rebellion!” — Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eriver woman\u003c\/em\u003e again displays Vermette’s extraordinary gift for narrative. ‘Ziibiwan (like a river),’ these are poems that gather pieces of personal experience and Indigenous history and in their sweep are bigger than the spare language we see on the page.” — Armand Garnet Ruffo, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Thunderbird Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR KATHERENA VERMETTE AND \u003cem\u003eTHE BREAK\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWINNER, AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD\u003cbr \/\u003eWINNER, MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION\u003cbr \/\u003eWINNER, CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD\u003cbr \/\u003eWINNER, MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr \/\u003eWINNER, BURT AWARD FOR FIRST NATIONS, INUIT, AND MÉTIS YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE\u003cbr \/\u003eINDIGO HEATHER’S PICK\u003cbr \/\u003eCBC CANADA READS FINALIST\u003cbr \/\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr \/\u003e2016 ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST\u003cbr \/\u003e2016 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FINALIST\u003cbr \/\u003eQUILL \u0026 QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr \/\u003eKOBO BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr \/\u003e49TH SHELF BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr \/\u003eGLOBE AND MAIL BEST 100 BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr \/\u003eNATIONAL POST 99 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr \/\u003eWALRUS MAGAZINE THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr \/\u003eCBC BEST CANADIAN DEBUT NOVELS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In language that’s quick and bruising, sharp-edged and relentless, Vermette limns one family and one community to show us something bigger.” — \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Vermette portrays a wide array of strong, complicated, absolutely believable women, and through them and their hardships offers readers sharp views of race and class issues. This is slice-of-life storytelling at its finest.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This intimate and emotional look at their lives succeeds both as a novel and as a work of social justice.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Vermette's approach to her complex and devastating subject matter is boundless in its scope, intelligence, and beauty.” — \u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. In The Break, the characters may be Métis, but the motivations and emotions are surely universal. This is an accomplished writer who will go far.” — Margaret Atwood\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.” — Madeleine Thien, author of \u003cem\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Katherena Vermette rendered the women of the North End gorgeous in her poetry, \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e. In \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, she renders them sweet, beautiful battlers who love under the most horrific of circumstances.” — Lee Maracle, author of \u003cem\u003eCelia’s Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Vermette is a staggering talent.” — Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In Vermette’s poetic prose, The Break offers a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country — and the strength that helps them survive.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“It’s unsurprising that a novel by a poet would be beautifully written … \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishing act of empathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best. Though Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer — she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e — for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about ‘[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.’ \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e doesn’t read like an impressive first novel; it reads like a masterstroke from someone who knows what they’re doing … 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.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Winnipeg Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Stunning … [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.” — \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Equal parts page-turner and stunning literary accomplishment.” — \u003cem\u003eOpen Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR KATHERENA VERMETTE AND \u003cem\u003eNORTH END LOVE SONGS\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWINNER, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY\u003cbr \/\u003eSELECTION, “On the Same Page” (Manitoba’s provincial book club)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In spare, minimalist language, \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e attends to the demands of Indigenous and European poetics, braiding an elegant journey that takes us from Winnipeg’s North End out into the world.” — Governor General’s Literary Award jury citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette’s love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us.” — Joanne Arnott\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“The love that sits at the core of Katherena Vermette’s \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e is not simple or serene, but pugnacious and ferocious, something to be alternately fled from as well as embraced… . Vermette’s poetry explores a landscape that she at once rejects … but elsewhere speaks of with a great sense of love and longing … These North End Love Songs are loud and heightened, but also possess a surprising vulnerability. The collection’s subjects are often wounded and sometimes disappear, as both the inner and outer landscapes that Vermette explores have the tendency to turn hostile… . \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e embraces the difficulties, the stumbling and the groping, and all the chilly, ugly elements than can nonetheless combine into a sense of place and home.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“From a mixed-blood Métis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It’s a story of death, birth, survival, beauty, and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you.” — Duncan Mercredi\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e … combines elegiac and fiercely ecstatic melodies to sing of a complicated love for a city, a river, and a neighbourhood. It is deep rooted in its location, yet will reach out to readers everywhere with its harsh and beautiful tunings of growing up female in Winnipeg’s North End.” — \u003cem\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
river woman
Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature.
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Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ? particularly through language as it lives inside the body ? that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ? her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where “words \/ transcend ceremony \/ into everyday” and “nothing \/ is inanimate.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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There are many layers here below the poetic surface, and Vermette is singer-guide to the true depths of this river. It’s a work to be read, shared, and read again.” — Liz Howard, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection \u003cem\u003eInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n “In \u003cem\u003eriver woman\u003c\/em\u003e, Katherena Vermette marshals the maternal energy of the river to spin the lyric poem into something that is awash with vitality. This ethic of care, which each section bears and ricochets about, has at its core a project of repair or nourishment, not just of the natural, but of those of us entangled with it. This us, Vermette deftly shows, is not an empty thing, but is instead teeming with Indigenous life — ‘we are the earth you are hurting.’ We are the river and, in this, we are without end, regardless of what history swells in us. Pick up this book and listen for the musicality of our beautiful rebellion!” — Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Wound is a World\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize \u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\r\n \r\n “\u003cem\u003eriver woman\u003c\/em\u003e again displays Vermette’s extraordinary gift for narrative. ‘Ziibiwan (like a river),’ these are poems that gather pieces of personal experience and Indigenous history and in their sweep are bigger than the spare language we see on the page.” — Armand Garnet Ruffo, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Thunderbird Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Katherena Vermette and The Break:\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\r\n \r\n FINALIST, 2017 BURT AWARD FOR FIRST NATIONS, INUIT, AND MÉTIS LITERATURE\u003cbr\/\u003eWINNER, AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD\u003cbr\/\u003eWINNER, MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION\u003cbr\/\u003eWINNER, CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD\u003cbr\/\u003eWINNER, MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\/\u003eINDIGO HEATHER’S PICK\u003cbr\/\u003eCBC CANADA READS FINALIST\u003cbr\/\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\/\u003e2016 ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST\u003cbr\/\u003e2016 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FINALIST\u003cbr\/\u003eQUILL \u0026 QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR (2016)\u003cbr\/\u003eKOBO BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (2016)\u003cbr\/\u003e49TH SHELF BOOKS OF THE YEAR (2016)\u003cbr\/\u003eGLOBE AND MAIL BEST 100 BOOKS OF 2016\u003cbr\/\u003eNATIONAL POST 99 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (2016)\u003cbr\/\u003eWALRUS MAGAZINE THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016\u003cbr\/\u003eCBC BEST CANADIAN DEBUT NOVELS OF 2016\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The lives of the girls and women in \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e are not easy, but their voices — complex, urgent, and unsparing — lay bare what it means to survive, not only once, but multiple times, against the forces of private and national histories. Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.” — Madeleine Thien, author of \u003cem\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The narrator of this story is dead. He misses feeling the skin of others, but he likes being about memory. It’s who we are siem. Katherena Vermette rendered the women of the North End gorgeous in her poetry: North End Love Songs. In The Break, she renders them sweet, beautiful battlers who love under the most horrific of circumstances. She points no fingers, just plots the story, person by person, memory by memory, until it is clear that we must give up the feeling of hopelessness that haunts the lives of these women. \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is itself a beautiful love song of desire to live a full and rich life as cherished women — even when we cannot have that. We can hope. Resilient as the star world from which they arise these women reconcile with their lives without giving in to the horrors they have faced. Vermette captures the reader from beginning to end. She creates unforgettable characters with honor, respect and a deft hand. In so doing she holds the reader’s tender love in her capable hands and weaves us right into the story. \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is unforgettable.” — Lee Maracle, author of \u003cem\u003eCelia’s Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Vermette is a staggering talent. Reading \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is like a revelation; stunning, heartbreaking and glorious. From her exquisitely rendered characters to her fully realized world and the ratcheting tension, I couldn’t put it down. Absolutely riveting.” — Eden Robinson, author of \u003cem\u003eMonkey Beach \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“In Vermette’s poetic prose, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e offers a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country — and the strength that helps them survive.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“It’s unsurprising that a novel by a poet would be beautifully written . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishing act of empathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best. Though Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer — she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection North End Love Songs — for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about ‘[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.’ \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e doesn’t read like an impressive first novel; it reads like a masterstroke from someone who knows what they’re doing . . . 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.” The Winnipeg Review\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e manages to be political even when it isn’t. It’s a book that explores social issues without ever preaching, or even seeming to be about them at all. It examines the only element of those issues that matter: their human impact. It’s astonishing in its empathy.” — The Uniter\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e 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 . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e offers clear insight into people struggling to secure a place in the world.” —\u003cem\u003e Quill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“[A] brave and important novel.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Eastern Door\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A visionary debut novel.” — CBC Books\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Stunning . . . [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.” — \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“One of the great Indigenous novels” — \u003cem\u003eFirst Nations Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Equal parts page-turner and stunning literary accomplishment.” — Open Book\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“This is a debut novel by the Governor General's Literary Award-winning Métis poet Katherena Vermette. The story takes place in Winnipeg`s North End. And it starts when Stella thinks she sees a violent assault taking place in a barren strip of land outside her window, known as The Break. Turns out, she is right. In fact, there is a threat of violence that hovers over all the women in the story, three generations of them, and the story is told in many voices. Katherena writes with empathy and understanding about people who are living with the pain of intergenerational trauma. The Winnipeg winter she evokes is cold and cruel. But there is such love, loyalty and support in this story. If you enjoy a gripping family saga, I would recommend \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e.” — Shelagh Rogers, CBC The Next Chapter\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A debut novel brimming with grace and wisdom, that puts the spotlight on the systemic violence being committed in our country, [\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e] is both a wake-up call and a call-to-arms. Vital.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. In The Break, the characters may be Métis, but the motivations and emotions are surely universal. This is an accomplished writer who will go far.” — Margaret Atwood\r\n \u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\r\n “This intimate and emotional look at their lives succeeds both as a novel and as a work of social justice.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e STARRED REVIEW\r\n\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\r\n“Vermette portrays a wide array of strong, complicated, absolutely believable women, and through them and their hardships offers readers sharp views of race and class issues. This is slice-of-life storytelling at its finest.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003eSTARRED REVIEW\r\n \r\n \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eWINNER, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY\u003cbr\/\u003eSELECTION, “On the Same Page” (Manitoba’s provincial book club)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“In spare, minimalist language, North End Love Songs attends to the demands of Indigenous and European poetics, braiding an elegant journey that takes us from Winnipeg’s North End out into the world.” — Governor General’s Literary Award jury citation\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“In North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette’s love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us.” — Joanne Arnott\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The love that sits at the core of Katherena Vermette’s North End Love Songs is not simple or serene, but pugnacious and ferocious, something to be alternately fled from as well as embraced. … Vermette’s poetry explores a landscape that she at once rejects … but elsewhere speaks of with a great sense of love and longing….[T]hese North End Love Songs are loud and heightened, but also possess a surprising vulnerability. The collection’s subjects are often wounded and sometimes disappear, as both the inner and outer landscapes that Vermette explores have the tendency to turn hostile. …. North End Love Songs embraces the difficulties, the stumbling and the groping, and all the chilly, ugly elements than can nonetheless combine into a sense of place and home.” —\u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “From a mixed-blood Métis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It’s a story of death, birth, survival, beauty, and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you.” — Duncan Mercredi\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“North End Love Songs … combines elegiac and fiercely ecstatic melodies to sing of a complicated love for a city, a river, and a neighbourhood. It is deep rooted in its location, yet will reach out to readers everywhere with its harsh and beautiful tunings of growing up female in Winnipeg's North End.” — \u003cem\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Katherena Vermette's poetry collection river woman is limited to 50 copies.","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover special edition","PublicationDate":"2018-09-25","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Katherena Vermette's poetry collection river woman is limited to 50 copies.","Subtitle":"Special Edition","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction\u003cbr \/\u003eA Best Book of the Decade, The Walrus\u003cbr \/\u003eAn Indigo Best Book of the Decade\u003cbr \/\u003eA Globe And Mail Top 100 Book\u003cbr \/\u003eA National Post 99 Best Book of the Year\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga has written Canada’s J’Accuse, an open letter to the rest of us about the many ways we contribute — through act or inaction — to suicides and damaged existences in Canada’s Indigenous communities. Tanya Talaga’s account of teen lives and deaths in and near Thunder Bay is detailed, balanced and heart-rending. Talaga describes gaps in the system large enough for beloved children and adults to fall through, endemic indifference, casual racism and a persistent lack of resources. It is impossible to read this book and come away unchanged.” — RBC Taylor Prize Jury Citation“Tanya Talaga’s powerful book is a hard-hitting story of the realities of Canadian racism, complicity, and Indigenous suffering. It is also a testament to the resilience of the Anishinaabe families who endure the crushing impacts of historic and contemporary injustices. In spare prose and a direct voice, Talaga documents the tragedies of the lost lives of Indigenous youth while creating a compelling narrative that educates the reader on the sad history of Indigenous–White relations. This book is a crucial document of our times, and vital to the emergence of a true vision of justice in Canada.” — Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e, Tanya Talaga delves into the lives of seven Indigenous students who died while attending high school in Thunder Bay over the first eleven years of this century. With a narrative voice encompassing lyrical creation myth, razor-sharp reporting, and a searing critique of Canada’s ongoing colonial legacy, Talaga binds these tragedies — and the ambivalent response from police and government — into a compelling tapestry. This vivid, wrenching book shatters the air of abstraction that so often permeates news of the injustices Indigenous communities face every day. It is impossible to read \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e and not care about the lives lost, the families thrust into purgatory, while the rest of society looks away.” — Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e is achingly blunt in confronting recurring damage that must be repaired. The book puts a human face to the headline statistics, reveals the continuing harm of unequal educational opportunity, and delivers the evidence of systemic racism in Canada with an insistent voice. Tanya Talaga draws the reader into communities of hurt and flawed responses surrounding the deaths of seven Indigenous students, the ‘fallen feathers.’ Talaga yanks at the reader’s complacency with her story of separated families, untethered youths, and the seemingly unbridgeable distance between cultures. She offers painful lessons while courting hope.” — BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Jury Citation\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“You simply must read this book. Tanya Talaga has done the hard work for us. She sat with the families, heard their stories. Now, with the keen eye and meticulous research of an uncompromising journalist, she is sharing their truths. We have to start listening. Parents are sending their children to school in Thunder Bay to watch them die. Racism, police indifference, bureaucratic ineptitude, lateral violence — it doesn’t have to be this way. Let this book enrage you — and then demand that Canada act now.” — Duncan McCue, host of Cross Country Checkup on CBC Radio\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This story is hard and harrowing, but Talaga tells it with the care of a storyteller and the factual attention of a journalist. She makes the difficult connections between this national tragedy and the greater colonial systems that have endangered our most vulnerable for over a century, and she does it all with a keen, compassionate eye for all involved, especially the families who are too often overlooked. These stories need to be heard. These young people deserve nothing less than to be honoured everywhere.” — Katherena Vermette, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e may prove to be the most important book published in Canada in 2017. Tanya Talaga offers well-researched, difficult truths that expose the systemic racism, poverty, and powerlessness that contribute to the ongoing issues facing Indigenous youth, their families, and their communities. It is a call to action that deeply honours the lives of the seven young people; our entire nation should feel their loss profoundly.” — Patti LaBoucane-Benson, author of The Outside Circle\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Once started, this book is difficult to put down. At just over 300 pages, \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e moves from one compelling story to the next, and seamlessly weaves in facts and history. The writing is crisp and thoughtful. \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e … fosters understanding, and is a book that can benefit everyone.” — \u003cem\u003eOttawa Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[W]here \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system … \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for all Canadians. It shows us where we came from, where we’re at, and what we need to do to make the country a better place for us all.” — The Walrus\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Devastating, angry, and thought-provoking” — \u003cem\u003eOpen Letters Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e (blog review)\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated by.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“[A]n urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families… . Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising… . The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“A poignant, emotional glimpse into the lives of the seven fallen feathers — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Kyle Morriseau, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Robyn Harper, and Jordan Wabasse — through the eyes of their friends and families.” — \u003cem\u003eTBNewswatch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e … is a must read. One can hope in \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e people in our community might find a path forward to true understanding and reconciliation.” — NetNewsLedger\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“This is a book that everyone should read… . [it] will grip you, make you think and help you understand better what has led up to the horrific experiences of young people cut down too soon. It connects the local experience to the larger experience of Canada and is a cry for justice, human rights and respect.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Chronicle Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eTalaga’s work brings stories to the fore when mainstream media have covered them up for decades … \u003cem\u003eSeven Fallen Feathers\u003c\/em\u003e is a difficult read. It deals with death and racism; it tackles pain and suffering head on. Telling the students’ stories is also an act of hope and healing based on the certainty that things can be better, and that they must. This book is a solid piece of investigative journalism and should be read, and shared far and wide.” — \u003cem\u003eCitizens’ Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e“Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse — searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the authorities who haven’t investigated, or considered the contributing factors, nearly enough.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s early April and the 2011 federal election is in full swing. All over Canada, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are duking it out with Jack Layton’s New Democrats and the struggling Liberals in a bid to win a majority government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to see Stan Beardy, the Nishawbe-Aski Nation’s grand chief, to interview him for a story on why it is indigenous people never seem to vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe receptionist at the NAN’s office greets me and ushers me into a large, common meeting room to wait for Stan. Everything in the room is grey — the walls, the tubular plastic tables, the carpets. The only splash of colour is a large white flag with a bear on it that has been tacked to the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great White Bear stands in the centre of a red circle, in the middle of the flag. The white bear is the traditional symbol of the life of the North American Indian. The red circle background is symbolic of the Red Man. His feet are standing, planted firmly on the bottom line, representing the Earth while his head touches the top line, symbolic to his relationship to the Great Spirit in the sky. The bear is stretched out, arms and feet open wide, to show he has nothing to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are circles joining the bear’s rib cage. They are the souls of the people, indigenous songs, and legends. The circles are the ties that bind all the clans together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese circles also offer protection. Without them, the ribcage would expose the great bear’s beating heart and leave it open to harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan walks in and greets me warmly, his brown eyes twinkling as he takes a seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan is pensive, quiet, and patient. He says nothing as he wearily leans back in his chair and waits for me to explain why exactly I flew 2,400 km north from Toronto to see him and talk about the federal election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI launch into my spiel, trying not to sound like a salesperson or an interloper into his world, someone who kind of belongs here and kind of does not. This is the curse of my mixed blood. I am the daughter of a half-Anish mom and a Polish father.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI ramble off abysmal voting pattern statistics across Canada, while pointing out that in many ridings indigenous people could act as a swing vote, influencing that riding and hence the trajectory of the election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan stares at me impassively. Non-plussed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I start firing off some questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn’t go well. Every time I try to engage him, asking him about why indigenous people won’t get in the game and vote, he begins talking about the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Jordan Wabasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a frustrating exchange, like we were speaking two different languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Indigenous voters could influence fifty seats across the country if they got out and voted but they don’t. Why?” I ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Why aren’t you writing a story on Jordan Wabasse? He has been gone seventy-one days now,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stephen Harper has been no friend to indigenous people yet if everyone voted, they could swing the course of this election,” I continue, hoping he’ll bite at the sound of Harper’s name. The man is no friend of the Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“They found a shoe down by the water. Police think it might have been his,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis went on for a good fifteen minutes. I was annoyed. I knew a missing Grade 9 indigenous student in Thunder Bay would not make news in urban Toronto at Canada’s largest daily newspaper. I could practically see that election bus rolling away without me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I remembered my manners and where I was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was sitting with the elected grand chief of 23,000 people and he was clearly trying to tell me something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI tried a new tactic. I’d ask about Jordan and then I’d swing around and get him to talk about elections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Stan said: “Jordan is the seventh student to go missing or die while at school.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan says their names: “Reggie Bushie. Jethro Anderson. Paul Panacheese. Curran Strang. Robyn Harper. Kyle Morrisseau. 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Seven Fallen Feathers
The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.
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The hope that sees women, both tattered and changed by the work of male violence and power, not at a loss for agency or warmth. In the end, Coles’s powerful novel is a tale of resilience.” — \u003cem\u003eRabble.ca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“No mistake, Megan Gail Coles is a driven, consequential writer who plays for keeps. Her seemingly off-the-cuff voice is controlled and quite intricate, and commands revisiting. \u003cem\u003eSmall Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club \u003c\/em\u003eis as important a novel as any that’s hit Canadian literature in years.” — Joel Thomas Hynes, author of \u003cem\u003eWe’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Each character is rendered with such stunning details and unflinching insights that you can’t leave this novel’s pages without being changed. 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Appropriately restrained and conversational. Coles is not your average newbie. She’s a serious talent who deserves to be mentioned alongside other young Newfoundland writers like Joel Thomas Hynes and Sara Tilley.” — \u003cem\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“The stories are often very short, even only four pages, but in each she compresses situation (relationship fracture and reknit), character (distilled to their absolute wants), and setting (St. John’s, Montreal, or Korea) like a literary Oreo cookie. It’s all about the crux, the crisis, propelled from the first sentence … crisp, lyric prose.” — The\u003cem\u003e Telegram\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eOlive waits below the sad mural painted in memory of some long ago drowned boy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe can see up and down Duckworth Street from her perch though there’s not much to see this early in the morning. A scattered taxi slogs by carrying fiendish-looking passengers who attempt to discreetly smoke from barely cracked windows. Discretion is a skill they have fallen out with but they don’t know that yet. They still fancy themselves stealth, piling four parka-plied humans into a single toilet stall, scarves dangling beneath the door, telling tails on them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume control is a thing of delusion in the confined spaces they inhabit. It will be years before this is fully realized by those who escape the scene or are thrown into adulthood by overdose or pregnancy. These lucky few will feel overwhelmingly, retroactively embarrassed by their one-time rock star fantasies. Olive can hear them bawling about their supposed betrayals as clouds of tobacco smoke and slurry syllables updraft skyward through the slightly parted window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Olive forgives them their make-believe follies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are no better or worse than most of the half well-off, half grown-up humans she has met. They are just flawed and vulnerable to the pitch. Olive is no different. She has chased the white dragon into smoky rooms where grad students complained about unkindly thesis feedback while wearing thousand dollar watches. A holiday-tanned winter wrist, a baggie held aloft, another Volvo fob serving key bumps round the ring. Under such circumstances, Olive is for the most part silent. She can pass for one of them until she releases language into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive often holds her rural tongue for fear of being found out. She is not a card-carrying member of the townie majority. And rarely are there other fugitive faces for Olive to hide behind on nights when she wants to get on the go. There was a Mexican painter once. A Russian musician. There was the one Pakistani fellow whose name Olive could never recall. She did not think it was unpronounceable, she just could not pronounce it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are lots of words still beyond her reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Olive can think of no words to describe the pain felt where her pants nearly meet her feet. She winces and tucks her chin farther inside her coat. She tries to push her neck back to save from catching skin in the zipper. She sniffs back hard and swallows a slippery lob. Her grandmother would not approve of hoarding mucus in the body but her grandmother would not approve of much of what she does lately. 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They are not twenty-five. They are not even thirty-five and feel as such. Most internally promise to stay home with the kids next weekend as they turn their faces to or from the sunshine depending on the quantity of painkillers ingested in the car. This temporary commitment to sobriety is bookended by revolving party systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome relish vitamin D while others resent it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe division will not last long, though, as the sun already has started to duck back inside the nimbostratus. It will storm again today as surely as the nearly forty will go out again in four days’ time. The babysitter will be called. The cat will be let in. They will flee their houses for a little look around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet the stink of house off ya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey will reliably cloak this smell of domestication in alcohol and nicotine and self-loathing until Monday. Mondays are for quitting everything. Again. 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Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.
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Spirit Bear
A classic work of Canadian nature and wildlife — updated and reissued with a new design and afterword by the author.
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tawâw
Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine.
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Depicting everyday citizens trying to make the best of a bad situation, \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e gives a human face to the people living under a brutal regime.” ? \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e shines a light on the dark half of the Korean peninsula with stories that are as readable as they are important … If these stories are an exorcism for the author, they are a revelation for us; \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e is fiction, but it is fiction that screams truth. Like its great literary predecessor \u003cem\u003eOne Day in the Life of Ivan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDenisovich\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful work that seems destined to serve as the go-to example, and indictment, of life in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.” ? \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“All we can do is to read these 'accusations.' Only that will save the writer who wrote and sent them out into the world at the risk of his own life.” ? Kyung-Sook Shin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePlease Look After Mom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an extraordinary tale of ordinary people in North Korea … A highly readable, nuanced, credible picture of a country where ordinary people go about their lives treading around the regime, and sometimes bumping into it.” ? BBC World Service\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A collection of courageous and confounding short stories … expertly translated by Deborah Smith … Shows similarities of both quality and content to stories by authors as various as Gorky, Solzhenitsyn, and Chen Ruoxi, or even Chinese contemporaries such as Yan Lianke … Vivid and uncompromising storytelling.” ? \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These short works offer powerful insights into a world behind walls … In its scope and courage, \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e is an act of great love.” ? \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e takes us across a deep cultural and political border … The stories, written between 1989 and 1995, constitute a passionate \u003cem\u003eJ'accuse\u003c\/em\u003e … Shines a necessary light on what remains one of the darkest places on Earth.” — \u003cem\u003eHamilton Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A rare piece of fiction from one of the world's most repressive regimes … A dramatic page-turner.” ? \u003cem\u003eQuartz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For readers interested in a candid look at life in North Korea, \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e … will immerse you via the stories of common folk.” ? \u003cem\u003eMillions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With these uncompromising stories, the pseudonymous Bandi gives a rare glimpse of life in the ‘truly fathomless darkness’ of North Korea … An endnote about how Bandi's collection was smuggled out of the country reveals just how miraculous it is that it exists at all.” ? \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fugitive fiction ? literally ? from inside North Korea, devastatingly critical of the Kim dynasty and its workers’ paradise … There is a streak of satire in these stories, but mostly they are grimly realistic … Certainly the author has access to the broad sweep of North Korean society, from industrial workers and farmers to midlevel political functionaries … An important document of witness.” ? \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No fiction beyond a trickle of agitprop has passed beyond North Korea's borders, and of course dissident voices are suppressed altogether. When it was smuggled out, this story collection became an international publishing sensation.” ? \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Well-crafted stories … \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting, disturbing collection … worthwhile.” ? \u003cem\u003eComplete Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] slim, powerful volume.” ? \u003cem\u003eWeek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bandi's writing style is markedly different from that of Western fiction … The rather bare-bones, bracing style fits the stories told. Their content has so much implicit drama and heartache, there's no need to elaborate … \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e is a quick read … Worthy of attention.” ? \u003cem\u003eCrime Fiction Lover\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] remarkable collection of stories … Revealing the terrible truth of living in a country where any freedoms are curtailed, where famine and brutality are rife, but where human belief and hope can survive any odds, this is a defining read for 2017.” ? \u003cem\u003eEmerald Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e courageously speaks for millions of people who collectively long for a life of peace.” ? \u003cem\u003eCulture Trip\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A collection of short stories written under a pseudonym and smuggled out of\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\"\u003e North Korea\u003c\/a\u003e is on its way to becoming an international literary sensation, with its agent fielding offers from around the world for an author who is being labelled the North Korean Solzhenitsyn.” — Alison Flood, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Plunges us into the daily life of families in North Korea. These stories are the cry of a man suffocated by totalitarianism. These are also the cry of an entire people who have been broken under the yoke of North Korean communism … The author makes use of storytelling, poetry, humour, and even the burlesque to aid his condemnation of these unbearable injustices. The writing is simple, humble, which gives it its beauty. The seven novellas shine with humanity and tenderness.” — \u003cem\u003eAleteia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This collection of novellas that the author managed to extract from his country is of incredible value … The classic construction reminds us of Gogol and Chekhov, and for their taste for absurdist satire, Ionesco and Bulgakov.” — \u003cem\u003eBooks Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Describes in very impressionistic, subtle, almost veiled tones, if I may, the daily life of a dictatorship … The book gives a human face, gives stories and images, to the sufferings of North Koreans … I was almost groggy by the time I finished reading, reminding myself of just how lucky I am to live in a democracy … I thought of Orwell and Kafka but realized that the country described here really exists and that there are people who are living there, perhaps not even knowing that a different kind of life is possible.” — \u003cem\u003eL’express\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bandi, a pseudonym that means ‘firefly,’ has achieved the unthinkable — offering a testimony on the dictatorial regime of North Korea while remaining in situ … In the same way as the works of Solzhenitsyn in their time, Bandi’s writing reminds us of the perennial necessity of battling censorship, whatever the cost.” — \u003cem\u003eL’amour des livres\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This author is completely unknown and would like to stay that way. He continues to live in a country that is held fast by an iron fist, putting his life at risk by writing. He describes, not without humor, the ordinary life of this dictatorship, the extreme misery there, and the surveillance networks that have been put in place by the regime, which make everyone into a potential spy or informant.” — \u003cem\u003eMag Dimanche\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Even if one did not know anything about the writer or the way the manuscript was smuggled out of the country, it would not diminish the fact that the force of this collection of novellas evokes the classics of world literature about totalitarianism.” — \u003cem\u003eL’ours\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A message in a bottle that is so precious that we should all reach out to grab it and better understand the tragedy of the last Marxist regime in the world.” — \u003cem\u003eLe Revenu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stories of simple people that are humiliated and beaten down for absurd reasons, watched over by grotesque henchmen and toadying neighbors, arrested and punished by a dictatorship that has held the country under its heel for six decades. A book to burst the silence.” — \u003cem\u003eLa Vie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This rare collection offers seven moving novellas, snapshots of a country where nothing normal ever leaks out … A far cry from the grandiloquent, ridiculous images that are thrown out by the Kim Jong-Un regime, \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation\u003c\/em\u003e offers the opportunity to discover a moving portrait of a secret country, a forgotten land where humanity only asks to try to triumph.” — \u003cem\u003eLire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No one could imagine that it could be at all comical to live in a dictatorship, but in describing the limitless absurdity of the system, Bandi sometimes makes the reader give out a nervous laugh … A fragile hint of light in a country that confuses democracy with obscurantism.” — \u003cem\u003eL’Alsace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Each of these stories shows a different aspect of the remorseless dictatorship … With a fierce sense of irony and a deeply dark humor, Bandi denounces totalitarianism, the divisions in North Korean society, and the absurdity and corruption of the one party system.” — \u003cem\u003eLa Grande Parade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stories written with a great humanity, the work of a true writer.” — Lecturama.fr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Magnificently humane and tender, \u003cem\u003eThe Accusation \u003c\/em\u003eis a profound read that shines a spotlight on the ordinary people living in the darkest of lands. It is also a staggering indictment of the deceit and falsehood that is today’s North Korea. A mournful, deeply felt, and necessary read. It will change you.” — Irina Kovalyova, author of \u003cem\u003eSpecimen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bandi’s collection of short stories are well crafted parable-like portraits of people struggling to trust and yearning to create meaning as they navigate their way through the sterile, Kafkaesque landscape of 1990s North Korea. 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The Accusation
A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.
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The Book of Fate
Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.
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{"id":6582723412027,"title":"The Borrowed","handle":"the-borrowed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA propulsive crime drama featuring a legendary Hong Kong detective on a decades-long quest to expose the city’s dark underbelly.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering six cases that span Kwan Chun-dok’s impressive fifty-year career, \u003ci\u003eThe Borrowed\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a tour of Hong Kong history from the Leftist Riot in 1967; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; to the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, while Hong Kong increasingly resembles a police state. 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It is crime noire with an Asian twist — a place where the present is dominated by the past, and the future couldn’t be more uncertain. A terrific read for anyone from anywhere.” — Ian Hamilton, author of the Ava Lee series\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“This is an ambitious narrative brilliantly executed. It hands us the living history of Hong Kong through the gripping prism of crime and politics - told backwards. 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One story will remind you of Ed McBain, another of Agatha Christie, another of Raymond Chandler's evocations of the city. It is indeed rare for a novel demonstrating so much artistic skill, operating on many social and psychological levels, and with so much mastery of what might be called classical tropes to be so consistently entertaining.” — \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“This naturally reminded me of Soji Shimada, and the strength of his detective Takeshi Yoshiki’s passion and determination to unravel clues. I also thought of … the American novelist Ed McBain, whose 87th Precinct series examines the intersections between police work and the individual lives of those in the force. The strong sense of social responsibility in the books by Swedish Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö came to mind too.” — \u003cem\u003eOkapi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“With the police force and social conflict as its background, covering 50 years of politics, history, and economics, intertwined with clever detective fiction, [The Borrowed] fits peculiarly with the current social situation in Hong Kong, and will surely stir up readers’ emotions.” — \u003cem\u003eMacau Closer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An epic thriller that tells of the story of Hong Kong police officer Kwan Chun-dok over the span of forty-six years (1967–2013).","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-02-18","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An epic thriller that tells of the story of Hong Kong police officer Kwan Chun-dok over the span of forty-six years (1967–2013).","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
The Borrowed
An epic thriller that tells of the story of Hong Kong police officer Kwan Chun-dok over the span of forty-six years (1967–2013).
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Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.” — Madeleine Thien, author of \u003cem\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The narrator of this story is dead. He misses feeling the skin of others, but he likes being about memory. It’s who we are siem. Katherena Vermette rendered the women of the North End gorgeous in her poetry: North End Love Songs. In The Break, she renders them sweet, beautiful battlers who love under the most horrific of circumstances. She points no fingers, just plots the story, person by person, memory by memory, until it is clear that we must give up the feeling of hopelessness that haunts the lives of these women. \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is itself a beautiful love song of desire to live a full and rich life as cherished women — even when we cannot have that. We can hope. Resilient as the star world from which they arise these women reconcile with their lives without giving in to the horrors they have faced. Vermette captures the reader from beginning to end. She creates unforgettable characters with honor, respect and a deft hand. In so doing she holds the reader’s tender love in her capable hands and weaves us right into the story. \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is unforgettable.” — Lee Maracle, author of \u003cem\u003eCelia’s Song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Vermette is a staggering talent. Reading \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is like a revelation; stunning, heartbreaking and glorious. From her exquisitely rendered characters to her fully realized world and the ratcheting tension, I couldn’t put it down. Absolutely riveting.” — Eden Robinson, author of \u003cem\u003eMonkey Beach \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“In Vermette’s poetic prose, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e offers a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country — and the strength that helps them survive.” — \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“It’s unsurprising that a novel by a poet would be beautifully written … \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishing act of empathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best. Though Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer — she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection North End Love Songs — for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about ‘[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.’ \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.” — \u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e doesn’t read like an impressive first novel; it reads like a masterstroke from someone who knows what they’re doing … 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.” The Winnipeg Review\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e manages to be political even when it isn’t. It’s a book that explores social issues without ever preaching, or even seeming to be about them at all. It examines the only element of those issues that matter: their human impact. It’s astonishing in its empathy.” — The Uniter\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e 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 … \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e offers clear insight into people struggling to secure a place in the world.” —\u003cem\u003e Quill \u0026 Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“[A] brave and important novel.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Eastern Door\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A visionary debut novel.” — CBC Books\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Stunning … [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.” — \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“One of the great Indigenous novels” — \u003cem\u003eFirst Nations Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Equal parts page-turner and stunning literary accomplishment.” — Open Book\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“This is a debut novel by the Governor General's Literary Award-winning Métis poet Katherena Vermette. The story takes place in Winnipeg`s North End. And it starts when Stella thinks she sees a violent assault taking place in a barren strip of land outside her window, known as The Break. Turns out, she is right. In fact, there is a threat of violence that hovers over all the women in the story, three generations of them, and the story is told in many voices. Katherena writes with empathy and understanding about people who are living with the pain of intergenerational trauma. The Winnipeg winter she evokes is cold and cruel. But there is such love, loyalty and support in this story. If you enjoy a gripping family saga, I would recommend \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e.” — Shelagh Rogers, CBC The Next Chapter\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“A debut novel brimming with grace and wisdom, that puts the spotlight on the systemic violence being committed in our country, [\u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e] is both a wake-up call and a call-to-arms. Vital.” — \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, takes a tough, close-up look at an extended family in Winnipeg, tackling along the way a side of female life that’s often hard to acknowledge: the violence of girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women, and the power struggles among them. In The Break, the characters may be Métis, but the motivations and emotions are surely universal. This is an accomplished writer who will go far.” — Margaret Atwood\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“This intimate and emotional look at their lives succeeds both as a novel and as a work of social justice.” — \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“Vermette portrays a wide array of strong, complicated, absolutely believable women, and through them and their hardships offers readers sharp views of race and class issues. This is slice-of-life storytelling at its finest.” — \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003eSTARRED REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003eWINNER, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY\u003cbr\/\u003eSELECTION, “On the Same Page” (Manitoba’s provincial book club)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“In spare, minimalist language, North End Love Songs attends to the demands of Indigenous and European poetics, braiding an elegant journey that takes us from Winnipeg’s North End out into the world.” — Governor General’s Literary Award jury citation\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“In North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette’s love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us.” — Joanne Arnott\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“The love that sits at the core of Katherena Vermette’s North End Love Songs is not simple or serene, but pugnacious and ferocious, something to be alternately fled from as well as embraced. … Vermette’s poetry explores a landscape that she at once rejects … but elsewhere speaks of with a great sense of love and longing….[T]hese North End Love Songs are loud and heightened, but also possess a surprising vulnerability. The collection’s subjects are often wounded and sometimes disappear, as both the inner and outer landscapes that Vermette explores have the tendency to turn hostile. …. North End Love Songs embraces the difficulties, the stumbling and the groping, and all the chilly, ugly elements than can nonetheless combine into a sense of place and home.” —\u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “From a mixed-blood Métis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It’s a story of death, birth, survival, beauty, and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you.” — Duncan Mercredi\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e“North End Love Songs … combines elegiac and fiercely ecstatic melodies to sing of a complicated love for a city, a river, and a neighbourhood. It is deep rooted in its location, yet will reach out to readers everywhere with its harsh and beautiful tunings of growing up female in Winnipeg's North End.” — \u003cem\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"It’s a timely novel that will keep you turning the pages and make you think well after you’ve turned the final one.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"With adeptness and sensitivity, Vermette puts a human face to issues that are too-often misunderstood, and in so doing, she has written a book that is both one of the most important of the year and one of the best.\r\n \r\nThough Katherena Vermette is not an emerging writer – she has written seven children’s books and won a Governor General’s award for her poetry collection North End Love Songs – for many, this novel will be their first encounter. And it will be a revelation. Vermette is a fully matured literary talent confronting some of our society’s fundamental problems through understated prose that exudes wisdom and emotion. Every page hides beauty amid suffering; love winning out over violence and hate. Stella, at one point in the novel, thinks about “[a] story that didn’t happen to her but that she keeps and remembers.” The Break is like that; it is a story that will stick with you a long time.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"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.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_3":"The lives of the girls and women in The Break are not easy, but their voices — complex, urgent, and unsparing — lay bare what it means to survive, not only once, but multiple times, against the forces of private and national histories. 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The Break
A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.
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And this is perhaps where east meets west in Irani's intriguing play.” — \u003cem\u003eVancouver Courier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “Top Rani, in \u003cem\u003eThe Matka King\u003c\/em\u003e, is a barker much like Celestin in Jerome: the top eunuch in a brothel in the red light district, he has girls to sell and bets to take. Throughout, the writing is deliciously biting and the exchanges very clever. Every line is an opportunity to comment and satirize while the images are vivid and unexpected. Despite (or because of) the humour and the harshness, we feel deeply for these characters.” — \u003cem\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eTHE BOMBAY PLAYS: THE MATKA KING \u0026 BOMBAY BLACK\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e “At once poetic and theatrical, The Bombay Plays pulse with grit, humour and despair. 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The Men in White
A heartwarming play about the modern immigrant experience, realizing one’s dreams, and the unifying power of sport.
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The Outside Circle
A graphic novel about two brothers surrounded by poverty and gang violence trying to overcome centuries of historic trauma.
