“I hope survivors reading this book come away knowing they’ve been heard. “There are few things more healing than being heard,” Good shared. Good explained that as Indigenous people work through their healing, and non-Indigenous Canadians come to understand what truly happened at these schools, she hopes her novel aids in the healing process. Good notes that the slow process was necessary, saying that it’s not a subject she wanted to approach lightly. The story takes place over decades and shows the five friends crossing paths time and time again as they work through the trauma they endured at the residential school.įrom writing the first paragraph to publication, it took nine years for Five Little Indians to be finished. The novel follows five students-Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie, and Maisie-as they leave the church-run residential school in British Columbia and adjust to a new life in Vancouver.
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