The Family Code: Volume 206Paperback, 1 June 2023

Every family is bound by rituals and routines. 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 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 son, six-year-old Axel. She bulldozes her way through everything and schemes to protect Axel, who flounders in the chaos. He begins to doubt his mother and her dream of a way out.

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.