The Family Code
Sabrina Phan
, Melissa Poremba
, Eva Esmann
, Aleksandra Sobczak
, Wayne Ng
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Mary Therrien
, Agnes Marshall
, Patricia Johnson
, Barry Kazimer
, Joan Clare
, Janice Hutchinson
, Anne Baldo
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sarah Schwartz
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Marilyn Stanley
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Suzanne Brooks
, Emma Parker
, Margaret McKay
, Jude Castillo
, Tyra Antle
, Margaret Palmer
, Noelle Walsh
, Sandra Perry
, Angela Mitchell
, Deana Bueley
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Hoda Montazeri
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Cathalynn Labonte-Smith
, Susan Jang
, Ariane Béland
, Teree Hokanson
, Andrea Gillespie
, Linda Leitch
, Deb Philippon
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Janai Phillips
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Rhona Brinkman
, Elaine Baptie
, Chris Carvalho
, Dani Kat
, Claudie Léveillé
, Connie Bennett
, cassandra schiemann
, Margo Beredjiklian
, P. Thompson
, Meaghan Krygier
, Diane Normandin
, Lynn Bechtel
, Janet Miller
, Darlene Jilks
, Karen Kendrick
, Christine Lion
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Benita Hartwell
, Mary Campbell
, Rachel Edmonds
, Paula Adam
, Derek Davidson
, Janice Cournoyer
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Catherine Westerberg
, Paula Ritchie
, Lynn Tait
, Denise Duvall
, joy mills
, Nancy Reid
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Kim Cappellina
, Ken Gilmour
, Sara Conway
, Kym Marsh
, Alex Henderson
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Lisa Mallia
, Jessica Gilbert
, Debra Fisher
, Dorianne Emmerton
, Joe Mitchell
, Linda Lefler
editor@49thShelf.com
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.
