The Break

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I cannot fathom the feelings and thoughts that come with this kind of trauma, this book helped me with a small realization of that and I appreciate this book for making topics such as these open. 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. Singh writes with a delicacy and dexterity entirely her own… This is a breathtaking, stunning text, one that encourages and makes tangible breaks from convention.’ – Meghana Kandlur, Seminary Co-op Rowan and Gabe celebrate their new baby girl, Lila, but Rowan remembers almost nothing about her hospital stay and birth. It was very traumatic.

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The climate crisis, state-sanctioned racism, the long coils of colonialism . . . These are among just a few of the harsh realities Julietta Singh confronts in The Breaks, a book-length epistolary essay written to her 6-year-old daughter, that also interrogates what it means to be a queer, brown parent in contemporary America. But despite myriad catastrophes, both personal and political, Singh finds reasons for hope in the possibility of community.” —Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub However, for Amy it’s enough to send her – along with her extended family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers – teetering over the edge. Rowan has just given birth to Lila. She and her husband have hired June to babysit part time. Rowan is having a difficult time since the birth. She feels unsettled, and it’s getting worse. She believes June has done some horrible things, and when June turns up missing, Rowan is now the key suspect. Only she knows what really happened, or does she?

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Across town, a Metis family is torn apart. Something bad has happened. It is senseless, heinous and inconceivable. 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." - Toronto Star

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If you’re an author or publishing industry expert interested in being a guest on the show, please send us a message with the details you’d like to be interviewed on. 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. The Breaks is amazing—I read the whole thing through in one sitting. It’s got the heft and staying power of Baldwin’s A Letter to My Nephew.’ – Lauren Berlant 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.Her children's picture book series The Seven Teachings Stories was published by Portage and Main Press in 2015. In addition to her own publications, her work has also been published in the literary anthology Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water. She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba, and edited the anthology xxx ndn: love and lust in ndn country in 2011.