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807 reviews for:
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Tanya Talaga
4.58 AVERAGE
807 reviews for:
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Tanya Talaga
4.58 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Racism
Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, Violence, Alcohol
Minor: Sexual assault
Je ne veux pas donner de note au livre, c’est une œuvre à lire pour son contenu. Une lecture difficile - je ne l’ai pas lu d’un coup, en partie parce que ça me mettait trop à l’envers et en partie parce que je voulais donner à chaque histoire le temps de m’imprégner réellement. J’en suis sortie remuée, triste, en colère.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
heartbreaking.
Eye-opening and depressing that this sort of thing is still going on. In nicey-nice Canada, no less.
The author's implication that the shoddiness of the investigations of disappearances and deaths of Native kids was racially motivated would have been better served by comparing police behavior when white kids were missing. I mean, this could just be the shittiest police force in North America.
The author's implication that the shoddiness of the investigations of disappearances and deaths of Native kids was racially motivated would have been better served by comparing police behavior when white kids were missing. I mean, this could just be the shittiest police force in North America.
emotional
informative
sad
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I remember hearing Tanya Talaga speak a few years ago about her process of coming to write this book (which she also details in the prologue/first chapter) and the general content of the book. I’m sorry to say it’s taken me this long to actually read it, but the book is definitely worth reading.
Talaga tells the stories of each lost youth with integrity and passion. You cannot help but feel enraged and slightly helpless as the book goes on with no happy ending in sight. It is the sort of book that you have to sit with and forces you to question so many of the things and beliefs you may have once held about justice, reconciliation, and power. I think the most heartbreaking thing is reading this in n 2022 and knowing so many things still have not changed.
Talaga tells the stories of each lost youth with integrity and passion. You cannot help but feel enraged and slightly helpless as the book goes on with no happy ending in sight. It is the sort of book that you have to sit with and forces you to question so many of the things and beliefs you may have once held about justice, reconciliation, and power. I think the most heartbreaking thing is reading this in n 2022 and knowing so many things still have not changed.