The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or a. As a Cree lawyer, poet and writer, Good’s representation of residential school survivors and intergenerational survivors in her novel, Five Little Indians, comes from lived experience. 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.Īlone 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 Canada Council for the Arts thanks its media partners for contributing to the promotion of literature. In 1868 (estimated), American songwriter Septimus Winner. Michelle Good now lives and writes in the southern interior British Columbia. Seven little, six little, five little Indians Four little, three little, two little Indians One little Indian boy. National Bestseller A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A CBC Best Book of the Year An Apple Best Book of the Year A Kobo Best Book of the Year An Indigo Best Book of the Year Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize.

WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for Fictionįinalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize

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