The Break

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My one regret is that I didn’t adopt this attitude when I was twenty-seven, but I knew nothing when I was twenty-seven. I think The Break also refers to a more general break in things such as relationships, ourselves, and our past. A team of leading historians are assembled here to view a familiar problem through an unfamiliar lens, ranging from India, to China, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Falklands, Gibraltar and the United Kingdom itself.

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Melissa teaches several publishing courses at local and national events, covering a range of topics from branding, to working with the media, to publishing platforms. The power of this novel is in its contemporary theme, coming at a time when questions on the unsolved rapes and murders of Indigenous women is at fever pitch at the federal government level. Katherena Vermette’s novel, The Break, was published in Canada in 2016 and the United States in 2018. Vermette, herself a Métis living in Winnipeg, brings the setting to life so effectively that the reader can see the grey streets and worn-out homes and feel the bitter cold.As her mother died of early-onset Alzheimer's, Cass becomes more and more concerned that her problems may extend beyond the physical. That the first time that they sneak out and 'lie' to their mothers ends in such a horrifying way also struck me as a wee bit much.

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Stella (third generation), alone at home with her infant children witnesses a gang rape going on outside her window and is helpless to break it up or render assistance to the victim. I was struck by the importance of family, how secrets were kept from people to protect them in different ways, how trauma is passed down. The stories of these Metis-Anishnaabe women from Winnipeg's North End demand to be heard, and together form a very real and very timely portrait that turns the mirror on issues of gender, race and the cycle of abuse that haunt our country. The author paints a realistic picture of life in this community, and paints too much of it, in my view. The story of Stella’s relationship with her husband, Jeff, is presented from Stella’s perspective; Jeff remains something of a stereotype.She tells herself she's lost enough time and she's determined that she's going to figure it all out. This is definitely a page-turner - I read it all night long, I read it on the subway, I read it while waiting for the traffic lights to change - Vermette has done an excellent job of constructing a fast-paced, thrilling plot that just compels you to keep reading. At the front of the book there is a "TRIGGER WARNING: This book is about recovering and healing from violence. I'm sure the author wanted the dialogue to be a true reflection of the current lexicon, but I found it unnecessarily repetitive.

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The tale is told over a few days in February, from the perspective of multiple narrators, who of course colour it with their own experiences and views. A little girl who has four younger brothers and sisters, who won’t stop crying, and a big, cold house, which is falling to bits, and a dad who can’t cope.We are also given the perspective of Scott who is hellbent on ‘solving’ this case, to the point where he disregards the magnitude of what the girl has experienced (pushing her to talk even if she shows signs of distress etc. Andererseits ist das Buch aber auch eine Ode an Freund*innen- und Verwandtschaften, an die starken Bande zwischen Müttern, Töchtern, Enkelinnen, Tanten und Nichten. This tragic event, and the fallout, is the focus of the book, but there's so much more to it than that. Themen wie Rassismus, häusliche Gewalt, Bandenkriege, Missbrauch und Identitätsfindung stehen hier im Mittelpunkt.

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From the apathetic police department to the fear of interjection on the part of witnesses, a broken system is at the core of the story. He still loves her, he’s just taking a break – from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. The book is broken up into four sections, each containing a chapter narrated from the perspective of a different family member, as well as one of the police officers involved in the story.After this shocking opening, The Break rewinds to the events leading up to the attack, and through the rotating perspectives of ten different narrators (mostly women and girls, but also the Métis cop) as they describe the aftermath (and eventually, circling back to the actual attack itself), the reader is given an intimate view into to what it means to be urban Native women today: the history and surrounding culture that weigh them down and the family and inner community that prop them up. I was often in tears reading this book – not because it was mawkish or manipulative but because I connected to the humanity of the characters – and while I don't think it was quite expertly crafted, I admire what author Katherena Vermette has achieved and revealed here. I read this as part of the Traveling Sister Group and we had extremely varying thoughts and perspectives on this eye-opening story. Clearly I’d my eye off the ball but, a bit late to the party, I’m trying to airbrush away all references to it.