Five little Indians
Title
:
Five little Indians
Personal Author EPSB
:
Michelle, Good
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. 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.
Other Title
:
5 little Indians
Year Published
:
2020
Physical Description
:
293 pages ; 23 cm
Awards
:
Selected for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller longlist.
Subject
:
Teenagers -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Fiction.
Residential schools -- British Columbia -- Fiction.
Indigenous youth -- British Columbia -- Fiction.
Kidnapping victims -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.
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. 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.
ISBN
:
9781443459181
Publisher
:
Toronto, Ontario : Harper Perennial, [2020]
©2020
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Edmonton Christian High | FIC GOO | Book | 30905000115372 | Fiction |