Their lives become deeply entwined, clinging to one another to find their way. Turning away from so-called “Christian” ideals taught to them in the abusive setting of the residential school, they face the throes of addiction, prostitution, rage, suicide, and other mental disorders in Vancouver’s Lower East Side. Each of the five must find their own way. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Mission, B.C. Michelle Good’s words draw the audience into the lives of five children that come of age and are released from the control of St. Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, Five Little Indians has the capacity to break the reader’s heart into a million pieces.
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