The book is also up for an Indigenous Voices Award to be announced in late June. “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,” the description of the book reads.įive Little Indians won the Amazon Canada First Novel award, was a finalist for the 2020 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, and made it onto the Globe and Mail, CBC, Apple, Kobo, and Indigo Best Book of 2020 lists.

Nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award in the Fiction category, to be announced on Tuesday, Five Little Indians tells the story of five young students at residential school in British Columbia. “I am in a state of gracious shock,” Good told in a recent interview, adding that she’s been ‘bombarded’ with media and speaking requests as word of the book continues to get out. See the announcement here: …Īuthor Michelle Good has seen quite a number of accolades come her way for her debut novel Five Little Indians, but the reality of the book’s success hasn’t fully set in, she said. Update: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good is the winner of the 2020 English-language Governor General Literary Award in the Fiction category, the Canada Council for the Arts revealed June 1.

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