Book Review: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

As we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, we share an appropriate book review...

Five Little Indians
by Michelle Good (Good)

 

In Five Little Indians, Michelle Good, a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, braids together the true stories of five fictional Residential School Survivors. At times humorous, often sobering, and always engrossing, this tale of five young people who struggled and survived their childhood experiences in Indian Residential Schools, drew me in, and left me with a better understanding of the repercussions of the childhood trauma on individuals, their families, and their friends.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer, Sugar Falls by David A. Robertson, Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga, Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese or Good Friday on the Rez by David Bunnell.)

 

( publisher’s official Five Little Indians web page ) | ( official Michelle Good web site )

 

See Carrie K.'s brand-new online booklist Indigenous Authors Write About Residential Schools here on BookGuide! #indigenouspeoplesday

Recommended by Carrie K.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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