Michelle Good Books in Order

Five Indigenous survivors leave a Canadian residential school and struggle to establish lives in Vancouver. Their paths repeatedly cross over decades as friendship, trauma, love, and the search for belonging shape their responses to a hostile world.

Michelle Good draws on personal experience to examine Indigenous life in Canada through essays on racism, treaties, colonialism, and literature. The collection challenges familiar national narratives and argues for reconciliation grounded in self-determination and material change.

Three generations of Cree women share stories shaped by residential school, settler violence and conflicting ideas of freedom. Eliza learns from her grandmother’s resilience, then struggles with her daughter’s pride in their heritage as the family confronts further loss.