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Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

3 reviews

aplpaca's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, Death, Religious bigotry, Racism, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Child death, and Violence

moyra's review

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Self harm, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Rape

shelleyanderson4127's review

challenging informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

 This is an award winning fictional story that follows the lives of five First nations children who are stolen from their families in the 1960s and confined to a Canadian residential school, where they are systematically abused.

Released as teenagers with no skills or support they begin building lives for themselves amid the drugs and poverty of Downtown Eastside Vancouver.

Make no mistake: Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are, for the most part, survivors, who deal with their shared trauma in their own ways. This is a compelling novel which despite the brutal subject matter never leaves the reader hopeless, because the protagonists themselves, who have the right to feel hopeless, seldom do.

The author is a Cree writer who worked as a lawyer for over 14 years advocating for residential school survivors. This is her debut novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Genocide