Michelle Good

Christian AllairewonCanada Reads2022, championingFive Little IndiansbyMichelle Good.

Canada Readstookplace March 28-31, 2022The debates werehosted byAli Hassanandbroadcast onCBC Radio One,CBC TV,CBC Gemand onCBC Books.

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About Michelle Good

Michelle Good is a Cree writer and lawyer, as well as a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Her first book, Five Little Indians, was on the shortlist for the 2020 Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the longlist for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for fictionandthe 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

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Books by Michelle Good

TheCanada Reads2022 contenders

• Christian Allaire championsFive Little Indiansby Michelle Good
• Malia Baker championsScarboroughby Catherine Hernandez
• Tareq Hadhad championsWhat Strange Paradiseby Omar El Akkad
• Suzanne Simard championsLife In the City of Dirty Waterby Clayton Thomas-Mller
• Mark Tewksbury championsWashington Blackby Esi Edugyan

Interviews with Michelle Good

20:31Michelle Good on Five Little Indians

Michelle Good talks to Shelagh Rogers about her fictional book Five Little Indians.

Unreserved10:50'Truth is truth': why Michelle Good's residential school fiction resonates

Michelle Good, who is nehiyaw from Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, wrote about a fictional story about five residential school survivors who stuck together as children but, chart their own difficult paths as young adults.