The Family Code
Dawn Macdonald
, Andrea Pole
, Margaret Palmer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Jude Castillo
, Mary Therrien
, Ariane Béland
, Barry Kazimer
, Amanda Schempp
, Stacy Stafford
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Janice Cournoyer
, Sandra Furlotte
, Marilyn Stanley
, Sabrina Phan
, Shayla Bradley
, Anne Baldo
, Joe Mitchell
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Deb Philippon
, Beth Dekoker
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Linda Leitch
, Deana Bueley
, Janet Baron
, Crystal Inwood
, Thelma Ball
, Sara Campbell
, Noelle Walsh
, Julie Kaniak
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Joshua Lewis
, Paula Adam
, Natasa Ilic
, Susan Baues
, Maria Mclean
, MaryJane Gruenfeld
, Holly Elisabeth
, Hoda Montazeri
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Vanessa Seto
, Frances Boyle
, Laura Peters
, Alice Meems
, Maureen Brownlee
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Debra Fisher
, Melissa Kohlman
, Gina Bergman
, Agnes Marshall
, LJ Law
, Dani Kat
, Laura Patterson
, Trish Bowering
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Emma Good
, Elaine Baptie
, joy mills
, Jaclyn Dawn
, Paula Ritchie
, Kim Cappellina
, Patricia McKeown
, Alex Henderson
, C. Ray
, Heather Belliveau
, Sarah Beaudin
, Karen Kendrick
, Brian Ettkin
, BJ Underwood
, PETER TASSIOPOULOS
, Ruth Walker
, Pinar Gencay Canturk
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Denise Duvall
, Lynn Bechtel
, Kim Fenton
, arnab ghosh
, Margaret McKay
, diana kirkwood
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Megan Bishop
, Prabh Toor
, Marilyn Boyle
, Karen Charleson
, Diana Richardson
, Benita Hartwell
, Karen Nordrum
, Randi Ann Doll
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Kathryn Galan
, Susan Jang
, Ken Gilmour
, sabina edwards
, Darlene Jilks
, Ryan Kosowan
, Claire Gear
, M M English
, Wen Budrow
, Dietra Reid
, Emily Hikida
, Mary Woods
, Roger Podewell
, Stephanie D'Aquila
, Nancy Krueger
, Vicki andrew
, Donna Roucoulet
, Margaret Cekis
, Sandra Perry
, Melissa Poremba
, Andrea Carroll
, Ann Cavlovic
, lesley johnston
, Elisha Lazarski
, Wayne Harrigan
, Stephanie Larocque
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, P. Thompson
, Patricia Johnson
, Cristina Pejkovic
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Every family has rituals and routines holding them together. But sometimes they are the very things that tear them apart. The Family Code is a gritty family drama featuring the troubled life of Hannah Belenko, a young single mother dogged by the brutality of past traumas and a code of silence that she must crack in order to be free—or else lose everything.
Hannah was raised by this code and rules her own family by it. When she loses her daughter to the state and her boyfriend threatens her, she flees from Ottawa to Halifax with her remaining son, six-year-old Axel. While she bulldozes her way through everything and schemes to protect him, Axel flounders in the chaos. He begins to doubt his mother and her dream of a way out. With her life crashing down, Hannah is driven by desperation to survive yet hangs on to elusive hope.
With unvarnished and high-voltage prose, The Family Code unabashedly reveals the power and perils of parenting, but also the longing and vulnerability of children.
