Truth Telling by Michelle Good
CBC Books | | Posted: May 8, 2023 8:13 PM | Last Updated: May 8, 2023
Collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience 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.
When you can read it: May 30, 2023
Michelle Good is a Cree writer and retired lawyer, as well as a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Five Little Indians, her first book, won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. It also won Canada Reads 2022 when it was championed by Ojibway fashion journalist Christian Allaire.