The book is also up for an Indigenous Voices Award, to be announced in late June. “The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission,” the description of the book reads.Īlong with winning the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, Five Little Indians was a finalist for the 2020 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, was on the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist and made it onto the Globe and Mail, CBC, Apple, Kobo and Indigo Best Book of 2020 lists. “I am in a state of gracious shock,” Good said, adding she has been ‘bombarded’ with media and speaking requests as word of the book continues to get out.įive Little Indians tells the story of five young students at residential school in British Columbia. The author has seen quite a number of accolades come her way for her debut novel, but the reality of the book’s success hasn’t fully set in, she said. Good’s novel won in the English Fiction category. The awards were announced on Tuesday, June 1, with seven English and seven French categories. Savona author Michelle Good won the award for her book, Five Little Indians, published by Harper Perennial/HarperCollins Canada. A Kamloops-area author has won a prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award, shortly after winning the Amazon Canada First Novel award.

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