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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Five little Indians
  name:
    name part: Good, Michelle
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 293 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. 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. Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can't stop running and moves restlessly from job to job, through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps, trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to reenter society and begin life anew. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.
  note: Michelle Good.
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous youth
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Racism
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Psychic trauma
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Government relations
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Survival
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR9199.4.G6643 F58 2020
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781443459181
  identifier: 1443459186
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 200127
    record change date: 20211018101400.0
    record identifier: in00004375293
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng