![]() ![]() ![]() The debates will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Gem and on CBC Books. The novel has also been optioned by Prospero Pictures to be adapted to screen as a limited TV series.įive Little Indians will be championed by the journalist and author Christian Allaire on Canada Reads 2022.Ĭanada Reads will take place March 28-31. Released after years of detention, the five 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.įive Little Indians won the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Good's debut novel Five Little Indians is a bestselling book that chronicles the quest of five residential school survivors - Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie - to come to terms with their past and find a way forward. Her poems, short stories and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada. ![]() Michelle Good is a writer, retired lawyer and a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. WARNING: This story contains distressing details. This interview originally aired in June 2021. ![]()
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