TORONTO — "Five Little Indians" by Cree writer and lawyer Michelle Good has won CBC's Canada Reads contest. 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. CBC'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. 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. The primary relationship in this country is the one between Indigenous people and the rest of Canada, and this relationship must be reconciled before we can really consider Canada the country we want to be."

Source: CBC News March 31, 2022 22:11 UTC