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2000s: A community crime and a community looking into itself..
The Break
What you need to know before your trail
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 ― so she calls the police as something is not quite right.
What is going on there and how did it come to this? People who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim start to tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city.
Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives of the residents in Winnipeg’s North End is exposed.
Travel Guide
Winnipeg
This is the story of Winnipeg and the area known as The Break – a strip of empty land with electrical towers in Winnipeg’s north end.
There live the Metis-Anishnaabe women – a First Nations people who quite rightly expect to live as we all do – in freedom and peace. Instead they suffer issues of race, abuse and isolation from the rest of Canada, the women there suffer especially. Indigenous women have been dehumanized for generations and this is an insight into the issues surrounding it.
As for Winnipeg winters – this is a very special kind of cold – the author knows and evokes this so well, you might want to wrap up warm when reading.
Streetview Maps
B) Winnipeg - Red River
C) Winnipeg - Canadian Railway and industrial zone
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Break
Author/Guide: Katherena Vermette Destination: Winnipeg Departure Time: 2000s
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