Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. When 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. Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break 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.
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