About the Author

Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, Winnipeg, Canada. Her first book, North End Love Songs, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 2013. Her novel The Break was a bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards, including the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Ms Vermette's second book of poetry, river woman, will be published in the fall of 2018. In film, her documentary, this river, won the 2017 Canadian Screen Award for Best Short.

Reviews

A compelling account of the way violent crime warps the lives of several generations.
*Sunday Times*

Unforgettable.
*Lee Maracle, author of Celia’s Song*

A tough, close-up look at a side of female life that's often hard to acknowledge: the violence girls and women sometimes display towards other girls and women.
*Margaret Atwood*

The lives of the girls and women in The Break are not easy, but their voices are complex, urgent, and unsparing.
*Madeleine Thien*

Reading The Break is like a revelation; stunning, heartbreaking and glorious. Absolutely riveting.
*Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach*

I love a book that takes me to a new place, a world I know nothing about - and so it is with The Break.
*RTE Ireland*

Vermette, an award-winning poet, brings real lyricism to this hard-nosed tale of a rape on Native American land, and the unwillingness of the local police to investigate.
*Sunday Times, Best Summer Reads 2018*

A dazzling debut... The Break is a terrific achievement, combining passages of lyrical prose with a compelling account of the way that violent crime warps the lives of several generations.
*Sunday Times*