Michelle Good recommends reading The North-West is Our Mother by Jean Teillet right now

CBC Books reached out to Canadian writers for the books they recommend during uncertain times.

Michelle Good is a Canadian fiction writer whose new book is Five Little Indians. In the novel, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie were taken from their families and sent to a residential school when they were very small. Barely out of childhood, they are released and left to fend for themselves in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

• Michelle Good's Five Little Indians is a fictional look at the real Canadian legacy of residential schools

Good recommends reading the nonfiction book The North-West is Our Mother by Jean Teillet.

"Though it is a meticulously researched historical tome, this book is a page turner! Teillet writes with a spirited voice and gives the reading the critical missing chapter in Métis history. A great work and an great opportunity for deepened understanding of the Métis journey. Can't put it down!"

• The epic history of the Métis Nation

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Author and Indigenous rights lawyer Jean Teillet on her epic history of the Metis nation, The North-West Is Our Mother, which is a finalist for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, at the Manitoba Book Awards.