A lawyer explains how her work informed the writing of her book and why many Indigenous people still feel the impact of the Canadian school system to this day.
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Michelle Good worked for Indigenous organizations for 25 years and as a lawyer advocated for residential school...
Matt has been a legal affairs writer at the ABA Journal since January 2020. His work has...
| Published: | May 25, 2022 |
| Podcast: | ABA Journal: Modern Law Library |
| Category: | Legal Entertainment , News & Current Events |
As a lawyer, Michelle Good spent years investigating the trauma that Canada’s residential school system inflicted on Indigenous people. As an author, it took her nine years to write her first novel about the lives of five teenagers who leave a church-run school and coalesce in Eastside Vancouver, British Columbia. For Good, it was imperative that she took her time to get the story right. Her patience paid off.
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