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It's an easy read and a enjoyable one for that matter. a really good plot at the end and breath-taking surprises during the read. I would recommend this to everyone who likes thrillers. How does one critique a book that has either won or been a finalist for every literary award in the land, is dubbed an Indigenous novel, and is the debut offering of a young writer positioned for great things in the literary firmament? Answer: Very Carefully. And yet no writer should be spared the observations that hopefully make for better work in the future. So, with that in mind, and mindful that I may also be the object of hate mail, let me try to do justice to this novel. But for me I know I was questioning things too early on so I couldn’t predict how this would twist and turn as I knew I had a large chunk to get through. I love the way the author adds just the amount of emotion and description and the way you float between the different perspectives is so smooth. It creeped me out and had an eerie effect with the camera’s scattered around the place, just there watching. How unnoticeable are these things?

The Break - Quill and Quire The Break - Quill and Quire

This book opens up to a trigger warning to it’s readers but I felt that KATHERENA VERMETTE handled the violence very well and although some of the details was hard to read at times, was very sad and depressing it is an important piece of Canadian culture and I really appreciated the author giving a voice to these indigenous Manitoban women. Her mind feels like it's going to break....everything is spiraling out of control. She's in a constant state of anxiety. The phone calls are amplifying all of her fears. Plus all of the things she's forgetting makes things worse. With everything going on Cass is desperate to know....The characters are standard with some to cheer for and some to detest. One character I really liked added some wisdom of forgiveness and not being consumed with anger forever. This is a revenge story though, and a fairly standard one. I've always loved the place my girl calls the Break. I used to walk through it in the summer. There is a path you can go along all the way to the edge of the city, and if you just look down at the grass, you might think you were in the country the whole way. Old people plant gardens there, big ones with tidy rows of corn and tomatoes, all nice and clean. You can't walk through it in the winter though. No one clears a way. In the winter, the Break is just a lake of wind and white, a field of cold and biting snow that blows up with the slightest gust. And when snow touches those raw Hydro wires they make this intrusive buzzing sound. It's constant and just quiet enough that you can ignore it, like a whisper you know is a voice but you can't hear the words. And even though they are more than three stories high, when it snows those wires feel close, low, and buzz a sound that is almost like music, just not as smooth. You can ignore it, it's just white noise, and some people can ignore things like that. Some people hear it and just get used to it. With 15+ years of experience in marketing and publishing, Melissa has seen the industry evolve. She and The Book Break team offer services such as platform creation, campaign building, book cover consultation, and much more to help both authors and their hard-working teams. My goodness, this suspense novel broke me into little pieces. Not for the mystery part of the story, but the human side of the story. I cannot recall reading a book of this genre that decides to also delve into the topic of motherhood and post-partum trauma while also dealing with the case of a missing person. Author Katie Sise manages to write with such compassion and empathy that I felt my heart would never recover from the levels of emotion it provoked in me. I have no idea why since my miscarriage in the fall of 2022 I keep stumbling upon storylines in my reading and watching leisure time but it sure is helping me deal with the stages of grief.

The Break: FEATURED ON THE NETFLIX SERIES TOUR DE FRANCE The Break: FEATURED ON THE NETFLIX SERIES TOUR DE FRANCE

If numbers are able to provide any sort of comfort, numbers like four, seven, 28 certainly do for me. It's both a cultural and a personal comfort. It's based on teachings I've received, and those teachings provide me with great comfort. In the overwhelmingness of writing a novel, these numbers were a useful kind of goal. It kind of made the big scary novel more manageable." 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 Winnipeg, North End: Als Stella in jener verschneiten Februarnacht aus dem Fenster schaut, scheint sie zu erstarren: Sie beobachtet die brutale Vergewaltigung und Misshandlung einer jungen Frau. Stella schafft es, die Polizei zu rufen - doch als diese vier Stunden später eintreffen, glauben sie ihr nicht. Die Polizei geht von einer Schlägerei unter Gang-Mitgliedern aus, eine Vergewaltigung sei bei diesem Wetter draußen doch gänzlich unwahrscheinlich. Aber Stella weiß, was sie gesehen hat. Und am nächsten Tag wird ein Mädchen mit schlimmen Verletzungen in die Notaufnahme gebracht... Alternating between narrators, the pieces of the puzzle finally come together. Emotional, chilling, dark, and immersive. This was the book that should have won Canada reads, my apologies to André Alexis, but this was the book that could help to heal Canada.After reading Open House and We Were Mothers, I knew I would be a long time fan of Katie Sise. Both of these books were 5 star reads that kept me up late into the night. So when I saw The Break, pop up on netgalley, I knew I would not stop until I had an ARC (or E-ARC) in my hand. I enjoyed his straightforward writing, pacing, and the first person narration from the main players. It is the kind of book you can just zoom through even though the plot was mostly predictable with an underwhelming feel. Vermette offers us a dazzling portrayal of the patchwork quilt of pain and trauma that women inherit, of the 'big and small half-stories that make up a life.' These are the stories our mothers, sisters and friends have told us - the stories we absorb into our bloodstream until they might as well be our own ... a stunning debut - a novel whose 10 voices, Greek chorus-like, span the full range of human possibility, from its lowest depths to its most brilliant triumphs, as they attempt to make sense of this tragic crime and of their own lives. The Break is an astonishing act of empathy, and its conclusion is heartbreaking. A thriller gives us easy answers - a victim and a perpetrator, good guys and bad guys. The Break gives us the actual mess of life." - Globe and Mail This book has been in me for a really long time. It started when I was living in a house similar to Stella's [the witness to the crime], next to a place very similar to the Break [the field where the crime takes place]. Same neighbourhood. It really started with that scene, with Stella. I'm reluctant to call it a dream — it was one of those writerly visions, from wherever it comes from. It was very scary. I saw what Stella sees, only I saw it with the perpetrator and the victim, and I saw their whole lives, and it really haunted me for a long time. I'm reluctant to call it a nightmare, because I think there is hope in this story, but it was very hard for me. I wanted to write it and explain it. I started with the questions of, how does someone do that? What drives them to such heinous violence? And how does someone survive it? Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs. Vermette is of Metis descent and from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was a MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

The Break by katherena vermette | CBC Books

Despite the horror of the assault, and the uncomfortable matters discussed, the book helped me gain a better understanding of the discrimination First Nations people face, and the generational trauma that appears impossible to escape.

Katherena Vermette’s first book, North End Love Songs, a poetry collection set among Winnipeg’s Métis community, won a 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award. In her debut novel, the author finds herself in familiar and heart-wrenching territory of prejudice and violence.



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