Title: Five Little Indians
Author: Michelle Good
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Year: 2020
292 pages
This award-winning book chronicles the lives of five residential school survivors. While the book is fictional, the stories could very well have been pulled from reality.
From the cover of the book, "With compassion and insight, "Five Little Indians" chronicles the bonds of friendship between this group of survivors as they help each other to reinvent their lives and, ultimately, find a way forward."
These five children were stolen from their families as soon as they turned six years old, the age when they could start school. One of them even got taken from his birthday party two provinces from where he lived and forced to go to school there instead of closer to home.
In this book, Michelle Good is truly able to convey the pain, the fear, the struggles that this group of people experienced throughout their lives. Good's writing pulled me deep into their stories, making it easy to keep reading because I wanted to know what happened, and hard because their experiences were so painful and raw.
If you are someone who is looking to expand your reading by Indigenous authors and topics, you must add "Five Little Indians" to your to-read list. You won't regret it.
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