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Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, is the winner of three Manitoba Book Awards and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Canada Reads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Vermette, Katherena (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Break\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. 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Reading The Break 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.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach","OtherText_Review_1":"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. The Break 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. The Break is unforgettable.","OtherText_Review_10":"A visionary debut novel.","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"CBC Books","OtherText_Review_11":"Stunning . . . [Vermette] chooses her words with a poet’s precision.","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Literary Review of Canada","OtherText_Review_12":"One of the great Indigenous novels.","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"First Nations Voice","OtherText_Review_13":"Katherena Vermette’s debut novel, The Break, 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.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"Margaret Atwood","OtherText_Review_14":"A debut novel brimming with grace and wisdom, that puts the spotlight on the systemic violence being committed in our country, [The Break] is both a wake-up call and a call-to-arms. Vital.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_15":"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_Review_15_Src":"Niagara This Week","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Lee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song","OtherText_Review_2":"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. Katherena Vermette is a tremendously gifted writer, a dazzling talent.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing","OtherText_Review_3":"Fiction is capable of helping us to comprehend difference and otherness, and The Break offers clear insight ino people struggling to secure a place in the world.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Candace Fertile","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_4":"Katherena Vermette’s poignant novel, set in Winnipeg’s North End, opens with a violent crime that becomes the backdrop for a story of great depth and compassion. This masterfully written narrative shifts among the intergenerational voices of the women of one extended Indigenous family. The Break is a powerful, persuasive novel about the strength and love that bind these women to each other and to the men in their lives. The traditions and wisdom of a community are honoured, as is the exquisite individual humanity of each character. Although this is a novel of social importance, it transcends politics, taking the reader on a journey to the heart of what it means for one person to care about another, survive trauma, and endure.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury Lauren B. Davis, Trevor Ferguson, and Pasha Malla","OtherText_Review_5":"The Break 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... She doesn’t pull her punches or dress up her truths. The Break leaves it all bare, and it demands to be read.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"The Uniter","OtherText_Review_6":"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_Review_6_Src":"The Winnipeg Review","OtherText_Review_7":"Vermette offers us a dazzling portrayal of the patchwork quilt of\npain and trauma that women inherit, of the \"big and small half-stories\nthat make up a life.\" These are the stories our mothers, sisters and\nfriends have told us - the stories we absorb into our bloodstream\nuntil they might as well be our own.\n\n..a stunning debut - a novel whose 10 voices, Greek chorus-like, span\nthe full range of human possibility, from its lowest depths to its\nmost brilliant triumphs, as they attempt to make sense of this tragic\ncrime and of their own lives. \"The Break\" is an astonishing act of\nempathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking. A thriller gives us easy\nanswers - a victim and a perpetrator, good guys and bad guys. \"The\nBreak\" gives us the actual mess of life.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"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.\n \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_Review_8_Src":"The National Post","OtherText_Review_9":"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.","OtherText_Review_9_Src":"The Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_6":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"01","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"01","PrizeCode_6":"04","PrizeName_0":"Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize","PrizeName_1":"Governor General's Literary Award","PrizeName_2":"Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction","PrizeName_3":"Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award","PrizeName_4":"McNally Robinson Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Amazon.ca First Novel Award","PrizeName_6":"Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Literature","PrizeYear_0":"2016","PrizeYear_1":"2016","PrizeYear_2":"2017","PrizeYear_3":"2017","PrizeYear_4":"2017","PrizeYear_5":"2017","PrizeYear_6":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2016-09-17","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A stunning debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.","teachersguide_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487001117\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=teachersguide\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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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The Butcher's Hook
Anne Jaccob, a nineteen-year old daughter of a wealthy merchant falls in love with Fub, the butcher’s son — an imperfect match.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
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In a slow build of quotidian moments, Khemiri constructs a familiarly flawed universe that lays bare what it means to be human.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"This nuanced, dryly hilarious novel is a sharply observed window into modern family dynamics.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Khemiri’s prose has a zing and bite stylishly served by Alice Menzies’ pacy, idiomatic translation.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Spectator","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeName_0":"National Book Award for Translated Literature","PrizeName_1":"Le prix Medicis du roman étranger","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2020-06-09","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Family Clause
From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse.
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The Field
From Robert Seethaler comes a tale of life and death and human connection, told through the voices of those who have passed on.
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The Full Catastrophe
The Full Catastrophe is a funny and moving story of how we tell our own stories.
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The Guardian of Amsterdam Street
Roma meets A Gentleman in Moscow in this vivid portrait of the twentieth century, witnessed by one boy from his self-imposed refuge in Mexico City.
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The Honeyman Festival
A night in the life of a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between her family and the need for a life in which impulse can once again find play.
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The Hunter and the Old Woman
The intertwined story of a cougar and a man that portrays the strength, vulnerability, and consciousness of two top predators. Not since Life of Pi have we encountered such transcendence or walked so fully in the footsteps of a big cat.
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The Immaculate Conception
Gaetan Soucy's Giller-shortlisted debut novel illuminates the sublime and horrific at the core of ordinary lives.
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The Immortal Woman
By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reveals an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.
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The Librarianist
A new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.
