Time To Read

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read. We are talking about The Break by Katherena Vermette. 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. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, with the victim — police, family, and friends — tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Through their various perspectives a larger, more comprehensive story about lives in this community and the after-effects of trauma emerges. In this episode we discussed: The Tom Austen series by Eric Wilson, This River (NFB Film), What brings us here (companion piece to This River – on Instagram @whatbringsushere), Indigenous Writers Collective, Manitoba Library Association – Prison Libraries Committee, More with Anna Maria Tremonti (podcast). Another book you might like: Erica: Women Talking by Miriam T