”Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020, this book will stay with me for the rest of my life.”įive Little Indians is Good’s way of telling the stories of all the survivors of residential school. The book has a universal impact and spans fifty years, beginning in the 1960s and ending up int he 1990s. Herself a member of Saskatchewan’s Red Pheasant Cree Nation, Good reaches into the depths of her characters and her knowledge of her mother’s and grandmother’s experiences of residential school to craft a story about the everyday-ness of the long-term impacts of residential school. The author is a Cree lawyer and she gives us the lives of five characters who as children survived the un-survivable-violence, inhumanity, dislocation, and all the other impacts that go along with the trauma inflicted on children by the residential schools system. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020, this book will stay with me for the rest of my life. The book follows five small children who are taken from the homes and have to face the abuse and isolation of a church-run residential on the Central Coast of B.C. She offers beautifully, well-rounded, fully-human characters in a story about the resilience and fragility of the human spirit. I couldn’t put Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians down.
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