Then there is 16-year-old Lucy who ages out of the Mission residential school. But Kenny eventually drifts down to Vancouver’s very sketchy Downtown Eastside where he connects with others who attended the same residential school. He tries to help her and even gets a few short-term jobs, mostly in fishing. The house was unkept and full of bottles. His mother, while he was away, had lost hope. However, Kenny’s mother and the home he left as a child is not the same. He makes it seem to his trackers that he has drowned and makes it back to his own community. The book starts off following Kenny, age 14, escaping by boat from a residential school. It follows five Indigenous people who are released from the same residential school off Vancouver Island. Perhaps it is meant to catch your attention and “throw” you back to the time this was in common use.įive Little Indians is historical fiction. Very few Indigenous people refer themselves as Indians. Last year, it was the third best-selling book in Canada.įor starters, I was surprised at the title. Among its awards are a Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Awards. Author Michelle Good takes us back to the 1970s in her recent novel Five Little Indians.
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