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From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Circle, The Strangers is the middle instalment in this heart-rending, utterly immersive Indigenous family saga now in B-format, with a series tie-in cover. Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten how freedom feels. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. These are the Strangers, each haunted in her own way. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she's hoping for a new chapter in her life. From a youth detention centre, Phoenix gives birth to a baby she'll never get to raise and tries to forgive herself for all the harm she's caused (while wondering if she even should). Elsie, struggling with addiction and determined to turn her life around, is buoyed by the idea of being reunited with her daughters and strives to be someone they can depend on, unlike her own distant mother. The Strangers is a searing exploration of race, class, inherited trauma and matrilineal bonds that - despite everything - refuse to be broken.

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Katherena Vermette (she/her) is a Red River Metis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Metis Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Vermette received the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs. Her first novel, The Break, won several awards including the Amazon First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. Her second novel, The Strangers, won the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, named Indigo's 2021 Book of the Year, and was a #1 national bestseller. Her work in children's literature includes the graphic novel series A Girl Called Echo. Vermette lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River. Her latest novel is The Circle.

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