Good, Michelle

Five little indians / Michelle Good - Toronto : Harper Perennial , 2020 - 296 p ; 24 cm

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside 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 crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission.


English

The 2021 Amazon Canada - First Novel Award winner Scotiabank Giller Prize - Longlist Canada Council for the arts - gg books winner Writers' Trust of Canada - Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

9781443459181


Poverty---Fiction
Indigenous peoples---Fiction
Racism---Fiction
Psychic trauma---Fiction
Families----Fiction
Authors, Canadian

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