Unabridged Audiobook
I think it is one of the best novels, I have heard. 10/10
This was a sad story about the devastation caused to the lives of five native Canadian people as a result of enforced separation from their families to be placed in Catholic residential schools where they were brutalised daily and denied their culture. The great tragedy is that these things really happened to so many of the indigenous people. I can’t say it was an enjoyable listen because the main emotions it raised were anger at the abuse this type of school inflicted and the lifelong damage as a result to both them and their families , the blatant racism, the threat of imprisonment if families tried to locate and rescue their children, and sadness at their struggles through life. But these awful things really happened and so for me, it was well worth the listen. The narrator was good too.
the narrator was very good, my problem with the narration was the lack of accent. perhaps I'm looking for too much realism
Incredibly well written. Michelle Good does an excellent job of investing the reader in the characters and setting. She wrote the book to answer the question "why can't they just get over it?" and did a great job of illustrating why.
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