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Indian Horse
by Richard Wagamese
This book gripped me from the very beginning, to the very end. I could not put it down when I read it a few years back. To this day it's details stick with me, the passages stick with me.
There's a twist towards the end that made be uncomfortable, but that's okay. The uncomfortable twist is necessary. It's something that happened, and it needs to be acknowledged and confronted.
Knowing what I know about the Residential School system, having lived in Brantford, visited the Woodland Culture Centre, and having taken an Indigenous Studies minor alongside my pre-law degree in university, I was initially surprised when what became the twist had not been brought up before in the novel.
But I'm glad it was brought up, and being used as the twist the way it was speaks volumes to the human psyche and the way we deal with trauma.
This is a book every Canadian should be mandated to read.
There's a twist towards the end that made be uncomfortable, but that's okay. The uncomfortable twist is necessary. It's something that happened, and it needs to be acknowledged and confronted.
Knowing what I know about the Residential School system, having lived in Brantford, visited the Woodland Culture Centre, and having taken an Indigenous Studies minor alongside my pre-law degree in university, I was initially surprised when what became the twist had not been brought up before in the novel.
But I'm glad it was brought up, and being used as the twist the way it was speaks volumes to the human psyche and the way we deal with trauma.
This is a book every Canadian should be mandated to read.