num_pages: 108
description: For Katherena Vermette Winnipegs North End is a neighbourhood of colourful birds stately elms and always wily rivers. It is where a brothers disappearance is trivialized by local media and police because he is young and aboriginal. It is also where young girls share secrets movies cigarettes Big Gulps and stories of lovewhere a young mother full of both maternal trepidation and joy watches her small daughters as they play in the park.In North End Love Songs Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermettes love songs are unconventional and imminent an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute to the girls and the women the boys and the men and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us. Joanne ArnottFrom a mixed-blood Mtis woman with Mennonite roots Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. Its a story of death birth survival beauty and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope strength and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you.  Duncan Mercredi
language: English
title: North End Love Songs
publisher: The Muses' Company