![]() ![]() Their paths cross over the decades as they struggle to forget or overcome the trauma they each endured. Alone and without skills, support or family, the teens find their way to the seedy Hastings Street environment of Vancouver. ![]() She lives and writes in south-central British Columbia.įive Little Indians is a brutal novel. Good won the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction in 2018 for this novel. Michelle Good is a writer of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. They are Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie (although she does not remain as a major character, dying early in the novel). The five were taken from their families as small children and confined at a remote, church-run residential school. But Indian is in both titles, so there! My choice of the two is Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians (Harper Perennial, $22.95). I have a hard time over the word “Indian,” preferring the terms First Nations or Original People. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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