ArticlesAnnette Lapointe

  • Fiction

    Crisis leads to a crash course in parenting, a decade into a child’s life

    Allison Winter, radio/podcast celebrity with the Public Broadcasting Corporation and curator of cutting-edge talent and punk trends, arrives in Winnipeg from Toronto in response to a grisly family tragedy involving her estranged 11-year-old daughter, Hanna. Claudia and Ethan, Hanna’s adoptive parents, were murdered by Claudia’s son who then took his own life – all while Hanna was in the basement listening to music on her headphones.