Five little Indians
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Five little Indians
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- Label
- Five little Indians
- Statement of responsibility
- Michelle Good
- Subject
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- Psychological fiction
- Novels
- Novels
- Off-reservation boarding schools
- Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada -- Fiction
- Poverty
- truePoverty
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Psychic trauma
- truePsychic trauma
- Psychic trauma -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- trueRacism
- Racism
- Racism -- Fiction
- Survival
- Survival -- Fiction
- Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction
- trueVancouver, British Columbia
- trueAddiction
- trueBelonging
- British Columbia -- Vancouver
- Canada
- trueCanada -- History -- 20th century
- trueCanadian people
- Cree Indians -- Social life and customs
- Cree Indians -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- trueFamilies
- Families
- Families -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueFirst Nations (Canada)
- trueFriendship
- trueGovernment relations with indigenous peoples
- trueIdentity
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueImprisonment
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Canada -- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation
- Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
- Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity -- Fiction
- Indigenous peoples -- Government relations
- Indigenous peoples -- Government relations -- Fiction
- trueIndigenous residential schools
- trueIndigenous teenagers
- Indigenous youth
- Indigenous youth -- Fiction
- trueInjustice
- trueNative American residential schools
- trueNative American teenagers
- trueNorth American people
- Language
- eng
- 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."--
- Award
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- Books in Canada First Novel Award, 2021.
- City of Vancouver Book Award, 2021.
- Evergreen Award (Ontario), 2021.
- Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction, 2020.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.4.G6645
- LC item number
- F58 2020
- Literary form
- novels
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