“The awards are nice and are deeply satisfying as an author but most important to me, awards elevate the profile of the book so more hearts and minds are exposed to the story that I felt compelled to tell,” Good said Thursday in a release. Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, won the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

Other titles in contention were Catherine Hernandez’s “Scarborough” from Arsenal Pulp Press and championed by actor and activist Malia Baker and Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black” from Patrick Crean Editions and championed by Olympian and LGBTQ advocate Mark Tewksbury.Īlso in the running were Clayton Thomas-Müller’s “Life in the City of Dirty Water” of Allen Lane and championed by forest ecologist Suzanne Simard and Omar El Akkad’s “What Strange Paradise” from McClelland & Stewart, championed by entrepreneur and former Syrian refugee Tareq Hadhad. The series began with three friends, Gary (James. Good’s book was championed by Ojibway journalist and Vogue fashion writer Christian Allaire from Nipissing First Nation in Ontario - the grandson of a residential school survivor who says it’s important that Canadians understand this history. After five seasons, fans said one last goodbye to the best friends from Boston as A Million Little Things aired its final episode on Wednesday. Shannon Masters, who is of Cree Mtis and. The book, published by Harper Perennial, traces the intersecting paths of five residential school survivors in east Vancouver as they try to rebuild their lives and come to grips with their pasts.ĬBC’s annual battle of the books brings together five high-profile panellists to argue why their favourite homegrown title should be crowned the ultimate must-read. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good has been optioned by Prospero Pictures to be adapted as a limited series. TORONTO - “Five Little Indians” by Cree writer and lawyer Michelle Good has won CBC’s Canada Reads contest.

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