“I want them to obtain a personalized and a meaningful understanding of the half life of trauma and how it continues and will continue to resonate through the generations. “I want them to stop asking the question: ‘Why can’t we just get over it?'” she said. However, more than the accolades, Good is hoping people will be encouraged to pick up the book and learn about her peoples’ devastating history. The book has received national acclaim, earning the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Good’s poignant account of her mother’s friend and her mother’s own experience at residential school is encapsulated perfectly in her book Five Little Indians.
That’s the first thing my mother told me about her experiences at the residential school,” noted Good.
“Lily was my mother’s friend and my mother watched her die, my mother watched her hemorrhage to death from tuberculosis.
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