Author Michelle Good will tour her best-selling novel about the aftermath of residential schools for survivors across Saskatchewan in March.
“What I so desperately needed was to be standing on the stool by the stove, carefully stirring under her watchful eye, like when I was little,” she read.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
Just four minutes long, the glimpse was the opening to an upcoming tour by Good, as the pick for this year’sFive Little Indians tells the stories of five Indigenous children sent away to an isolated residential school on B.C.’s coast in the 1960s, and then follows their return home, and subsequent struggles to readjust, ten years later.on Indigenous people and, as Good intends, a conversation starter on the traumatic topic.
“What I hope the book does is inspire people to reconsider what they think they know about Canadian history, about residential schools and about intergenerational trauma,” she said. “There’s nothing more enriching than to realize you’re wrong, and to then embark on coming to a deeper, more accurate understanding.”
Author of Five Little Indians, Michelle Good, reads a few passages from her book ahead of an upcoming tour for the One Book One Province program, at Government House on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 in Regina.
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