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A review by ashylibrarian
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David A. Robertson
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This may be a short graphic novel at only about 40 pages, but the story and conversation this brings to readers are compelling. Residential schools are something that most of us have heard about before, including myself, but having the horrors and atrocities put on pages with illustrations accompanying them was so powerful and heartbreaking.
Thank you, Elder Betty Ross, for sharing your story.
This graphic novel would be beneficial to use as a conversation text for high school, and even college, classrooms.
Thank you, Elder Betty Ross, for sharing your story.
This graphic novel would be beneficial to use as a conversation text for high school, and even college, classrooms.
Graphic: Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Child abuse
Moderate: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault