03085cam a2200397 4500 1171817900 TxAuBib 20240319120000.0 240306t20242020||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9798885797061 hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib Good, Michelle. Five little Indians [Large Type Book] / Michelle Good. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich] : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2024. ©2020. 451 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print diverse voices "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. Fueled 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 re-enter 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"--Provided by the publisher. 20240319. Poverty Fiction. Indigenous youth Fiction. Racism Fiction. Psychic trauma Fiction. Indigenous peoples Government relations Fiction. Families Fiction. Survival Fiction. Cree Indians Social life and customs Fiction. Indians of North America Canada Fiction. Indians of North America Cultural assimilation Fiction. Indians of North America Ethnic identity Fiction. Off-reservation boarding schools Canada Fiction. Vancouver (B.C) Fiction. Thorndike Press large print diverse voices. RV8