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Five Little Indians
by Michelle Good
This is a novel I have been waiting to come available at the library, and once it landed on my desk I had to push everything else aside and jump into Michelle Good's debut novel.
Five Little Indians follows the lives of Residential School Survivors as they leave the Mission school and make their way in Vancouver in the 1970s. Their overlapping lives make for a page turning pace, as breadcrumbs about each character's life interweave in surprising ways. The reader is able to access the emotions and feelings of each character in a profound way that I am still working through as I write this. I think this is one of the first fiction books I have read about the impact of Residential school on the Survivors, and when I think back to the impact Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels had on my understanding of trauma when I read it in high school, I know this book is asking me to do similar work.
I cannot wait for what Good will publish next, and until then I will return to this novel for a rare second or third read
Five Little Indians follows the lives of Residential School Survivors as they leave the Mission school and make their way in Vancouver in the 1970s. Their overlapping lives make for a page turning pace, as breadcrumbs about each character's life interweave in surprising ways. The reader is able to access the emotions and feelings of each character in a profound way that I am still working through as I write this. I think this is one of the first fiction books I have read about the impact of Residential school on the Survivors, and when I think back to the impact Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels had on my understanding of trauma when I read it in high school, I know this book is asking me to do similar work.
I cannot wait for what Good will publish next, and until then I will return to this novel for a rare second or third read