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Five little Indians, Michelle Good

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Five little Indians

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Michelle Good

"Taken from their families as small children and confined at a remote, Church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie, and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released, with no money or support, after years of detention. Alone and without skills, support, or family, 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 criss-cross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they each endured during their years at the Mission. With compassion and insight, <i>Five Little Indians</i> chronicles the bonds of friendship between this group of survivors as they help each other to reinvent their lives and, ultimately, find a way forward." --Front cover flap

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