Five Little Indians
by Michelle Good | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1443459186 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1443459186 Global Overview for this book
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Taken from their families as small children and confined at a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released, with no money or support, after years of detention.
Alone and without skills, support or family, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of downtown east side Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and criss-cross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they each endured during their years at the Mission.
Taken from their families as small children and confined at a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released, with no money or support, after years of detention.
Alone and without skills, support or family, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of downtown east side Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and criss-cross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they each endured during their years at the Mission.
Although this is a work of fiction, the stories provide huge insight into life at the residential schools, and the effects this had on the children and on their families, both elders and future generations. The book mostly describes their life journeys after release from the Mission, but also flashes back to their childhood experiences at the school.
The author, Michelle Good, is is a writer of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. This is her first novel, and it is very powerful. I know the story will stay with me for a long time to come.
The author, Michelle Good, is is a writer of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. This is her first novel, and it is very powerful. I know the story will stay with me for a long time to come.
I am passing this one on to my sister, starrdust.
Thanks for passing on this book to me, Maranlin.