The Strangers
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Strangers is a 2021 novel by the Métis writer Katherena Vermette, author of The Break. It follows several generations of women in the Stranger family in Winnipeg's North End. Cedar, placed in foster care, moves in with her estranged father, while her sister Phoenix gives birth in youth detention and their mother Elsie struggles with addiction. The novel won the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the Giller Prize.
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