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Author Good, Michelle, auteur.

Title Five little indians / Michelle Good.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Perennial, [2020]
©2020

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 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  GOOD, MICHELLE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 293 pages ; 23 cm
Awards The 2021 Amazon Canada, First Novel Awards.
Governor General's Literary Awards [for Fiction].
Summary "Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can't stop running and moves restlessly from job to job - through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps - trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and,ultimately, find a way forward." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Indigenous peoples -- Government relations. (OCoLC)fst00970236
Genre/Form Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Subject Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity. (OCoLC)fst00969733
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Subject Psychic trauma. (OCoLC)fst01081217
Canadian fiction -- 21st century.
Survival -- Fiction.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Cree Indians -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject British Columbia -- Vancouver. (OCoLC)fst01211882
Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
Indigenous youth -- Fiction.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Ethnic identity -- Fiction.
Subject Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.
Cree Indians -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00882667
Poverty -- Fiction.
Psychic trauma -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- Government relations -- Fiction.
Indigenous fiction (English) (CaOONL)cash60390
Off-reservation boarding schools. (OCoLC)fst01043978
Racism -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction.
Subject Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity -- Fiction.
Poverty. (OCoLC)fst01074093
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Indians of North America -- Canada -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Literature.
Subject Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada -- Fiction.
Indigenous youth. (OCoLC)fst01199944
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Fiction.
Subject Survival. (OCoLC)fst01761768
Indigenous peoples -- Canada (DLC)sh2009002946 -- Residential schools.
Genre/Form Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
Subject Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation. (OCoLC)fst00969695
Local Subject Residential schools -- Canada -- Fiction.
ISBN 9781443459181 (broché)
1443459186 (broché)
9781443459198 (ebook)
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