~ Trade Paperback
~ CBC Canada Reads Winner - 2022
Five Little Indians is told from the alternating points of view of five former residential school students as they struggle to survive in 1960s Vancouver, and the bonds of friendship that sustain them, inspired by the author's family's experiences.
With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the bonds of friendship between this group of survivors as they help each other to reinvent their lives and, ultimately, find a way forward.
Author, Michelle Good is the daughter and granddaughter of survivors who were taken away from family to be brought up in residential schools. Although her story is fictitious, it is a composite of the reality of mistreatment inflicted on so many whose childhood (and in many cases functional adulthood) was taken away from them.