Other titles in contention were Catherine Hernandez’s “Scarborough” from Arsenal Pulp Press and championed by actor and activist Malia Baker and Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black” from Patrick Crean Editions and championed by Olympian and LGBTQ advocate Mark Tewksbury.Īlso in the running were Clayton Thomas-Müller’s “Life in the City of Dirty Water” of Allen Lane and championed by forest ecologist Suzanne Simard and Omar El Akkad’s “What Strange Paradise” from McClelland & Stewart, championed by entrepreneur and former Syrian refugee Tareq Hadhad. Good’s book was championed by Ojibway journalist and Vogue fashion writer Christian Allaire from Nipissing First Nation in Ontario - the grandson of a residential school survivor who says it’s important that Canadians understand this history. The book, published by Harper Perennial, traces the intersecting paths of five residential school survivors in east Vancouver as they try to rebuild their lives and come to grips with their pasts.ĬBC’s annual battle of the books brings together five high-profile panellists to argue why their favourite homegrown title should be crowned the ultimate must-read. TORONTO - “Five Little Indians” by Cree writer and lawyer Michelle Good has won CBC’s Canada Reads contest.
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