Follow the young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa in Wendy McGrath's final book in the Santa Rosa trilogy. Christine is budding with creativity that her working-class parents do not understand. Christine questions her parents' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubbling under the surface of their marriage. Her insight turns beyond her family to her neighbourhood, nicknamed Packingland, a community built on meat-packing plants and slaughterhouses. Broke City is a working-class story that reveals Christine's deepening knowledge of the adult world and of her own complicated place in that world.
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