Publication date UK format 20/8/22 book 112 pages
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Synopsis
This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school.
Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government- funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of “aggressive assimilation.”
As Augie Merasty recounts, these schools did more than attempt to mold children in the ways of white society. They were taught to be ashamed of their native heritage and, as he experienced, often suffered physical and sexual abuse.
But, even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through.
My Review
This was a very shocking and eye opening book set in Canada. I just couldn't put it down and had to binge read it. I couldn't believe what horrible treatment the author had to go through in a faith residential school. It must of been so very hard for him to retell this shocking story but I am so glad he did as stories like this one need to be told so people understand what indigenous people of Canada's northern territory had to go through. That they were at that school to be changed from their own traditions.
The cover of this book is very simple but once you have read this book you will understand the power that the picture on the cover holds. This is a great well wrote quick read book. I definitely recommend reading this book. Especially if you like reading autobiographies looking at shocking events. I would definitely like to thank David Carpenter for organising the authors story into this fantastic book. This story will be staying with me for a long time. It is definitely a very emotional story. I just hope and pray that these events never happen again.
So much praise goes out to the author and publishing team for bringing this story to us to open our eye to just how shocking life can be.it was definitely a very important message that needed to be brought to the world.
Where you can buy this book
Amazon US K $8.92, AUDIBLE, PB $14.95, HC $19.95
Waterstones PB £15.99
B&N PB $14.95 EBOOK $10.99
Amazon UK K £7.99, AUDIBLE
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