A review by kjulie
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

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

4.75

This is an incredibly emotional story revolving around 5 residential school survivors in British Columbia. This fictional story honours all the Indigenous children who paid the heavy price of colonialism, and it challenges readers to see the people behind the stories we hear in the news. This book is filled with compassion. 

The only difficulty I had with it was the timeline. There were several time jumps, and I was a bit confused, trying to figure out how much time had passed, and whether things were linear or not (which only happened once, which confused me even more than if it was clearly not linear). 
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