Canada Reads-winning author Michelle Good is back, with another book reflecting on the Indigenous experiences in Canada. Her next book is a collection of essays titled Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada.

Truth Telling is a collection of seven personal essays that explore a wide range of issues affecting Indigenous people in Canada today, including reconciliation, the rise of Indigenous literature in the 1970s and the impact it has to this day, the emergence of "pretendians" and more.

"With authority, intelligence and insight, Michelle Good delves into the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin social institutions in Canada and prevents meaningful and substantive reconciliation," the book's publisher, HarperCollins, said.

Truth Telling will be available on May 30, 2023.

Good made her presence felt in the Canadian literary scene with her debut novel, Five Little Indians. Good is a writer, retired lawyer and a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation.

In Five Little Indians, 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 without resources and left to establish adult lives on their own in Vancouver. Haunted by the trauma of their childhood, the five friends cross paths over the decades and struggle with the weight of their shared past.

Five Little Indians would win the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and Canada Reads 2022. It was championed on Canada Reads by Christian Allaire, an Ojibway fashion writer who currently works at Vogue. It is also being adapted into a TV series.

"Being a citizen of this country, we do have a duty to do these reparations, even if you didn't have a hand in it. I know a lot of people don't want to assume the guilt. It's not about that. It's about us coming together as a country to acknowledge this happened and helping us move forward altogether," Allaire said during the finale.

"I hope all Canadians open up to that. I think a lot of Canadians struggle with reconciliation. They need something to do about it. You can read this book and the best thing you can do is just understand. That's an easy first step we can all take."

Five Little Indians was also the bestselling Canadian book at independent bookstores in 2021 and 2022.

Truth Telling was directly inspired by Good's success with Five Little Indians.

"Watching Five Little Indians reach the hands, hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of Canadians, it was clear to me that there is a sudden willingness to engage in critical conversations about the truth of Canadian history as experienced by Indigenous people.

These essays are an invitation, not a declaration. An invitation to non-indigenous Canadians to reconsider what they think they know about Indigenous peoples, to critically consider the historical myths they've been spoon-fed in the quest for colonial domination and to inspire in them a quest for truth and a demand for justice."