Reviews (3)

[DEBUT] In this arresting fiction debut from Métis poet Vermette, a multi-award winner in her native Canada, a young Métis woman named Stella summons the police when she sees a girl being assaulted on a nearby vacant lot she calls the…

Vermette's piercing debut novel (following the poetry collection North End Love Songs) begins on a cold, snowy night, when Stella, a young Métis woman, looks out her window and witnesses an attack on a girl out on the Break-a tract of…

*Starred Review* Vermette (North End Love Songs, 2012) deserves the many accolades this novel about four generations of Métis women has earned since its first publication, in Canada in 2016. An apt trigger warning appears on the title page…