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Five Little Indians
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.
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Angry, embarrassed, disgusted, horrified, nauseous, scared and so so sad, but hopeful and now informed.
- By Shantelle Lamouche on 2021-01-18
Written by: Thomas King
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Scarborough
- Written by: Catherine Hernandez
- Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.
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Overrated
- By A B on 2019-09-19
Written by: Catherine Hernandez
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
- Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality
- Written by: Bob Joseph
- Narrated by: Sage Isaac
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer. The Indian Act, after 141 years, continues to shape, control, and constrain the lives and opportunities of Indigenous peoples, and is at the root of many lasting stereotypes.
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Essentially Canadian - Must Read.
- By Marcel Molin on 2019-08-23
Written by: Bob Joseph
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
- A Memoir of Healing
- Written by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Narrated by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbia; the tough teenager who, at 17, managed a drug house run by members of his family, and slipped in and out of juvie, operating in a world of violence and pain.
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Every Canadian needs to read this
- By Elizabeth Bunney on 2022-10-10
Written by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
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Washington Black
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of these men. But the man is not as Washington expects him to be. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist - whose obsession to perfect a winged flying machine disturbs all who know him.
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Awesome!
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Written by: Esi Edugyan
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.
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A Harlequin Romance, with Zoology Thrown In
- By Wandering on 2019-08-25
Written by: Delia Owens
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Written by: Thomas King
- Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.
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Angry, embarrassed, disgusted, horrified, nauseous, scared and so so sad, but hopeful and now informed.
- By Shantelle Lamouche on 2021-01-18
Written by: Thomas King
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Scarborough
- Written by: Catherine Hernandez
- Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.
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Overrated
- By A B on 2019-09-19
Written by: Catherine Hernandez
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
- Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality
- Written by: Bob Joseph
- Narrated by: Sage Isaac
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer. The Indian Act, after 141 years, continues to shape, control, and constrain the lives and opportunities of Indigenous peoples, and is at the root of many lasting stereotypes.
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Essentially Canadian - Must Read.
- By Marcel Molin on 2019-08-23
Written by: Bob Joseph
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
- A Memoir of Healing
- Written by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Narrated by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbia; the tough teenager who, at 17, managed a drug house run by members of his family, and slipped in and out of juvie, operating in a world of violence and pain.
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Every Canadian needs to read this
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Written by: Clayton Thomas-Muller
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Washington Black
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of these men. But the man is not as Washington expects him to be. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist - whose obsession to perfect a winged flying machine disturbs all who know him.
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Awesome!
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- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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A Harlequin Romance, with Zoology Thrown In
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The Red Word
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Good Story, but a Few Pronunciation Issues
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Stopped reading at chapter 2
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For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.
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Just get it. It's worth is.
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Didn't want it to end - and it didn't
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Fabulous wise, informative, inspiring, beautifully written book!
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We begin with a man off balance: one in one thousand, the only child in town whose polio leads to partial paralysis. We meet his future wife, chanting Hai Rams for Gandhiji and choosing education over marriage. On one side of the line that divides this book, we follow them as their homeland splits in two and they are drawn together, moving to Canada and raising their children in mining towns and in crowded city apartments.
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Complex & thought provoking
- By Stacey Ivits on 2020-12-30
Written by: Madhur Anand
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More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna.
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Perspectives on modern tragedies
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From the Ashes
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Real, Raw and so encouraging
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Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she’s hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers.
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Hard listen
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They Called Me Number One
- Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
- Written by: Bev Sellars
- Narrated by: Bev Sellars
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.
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Thank You!
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Written by: Bev Sellars
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated.
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Enjoyed!
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Written by: Taylor Jenkins Reid
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- Written by: Alicia Elliott
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In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing, and representation.
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Profoundly vulnerable and robustly analytical
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Written by: Alicia Elliott
Publisher's Summary
WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
WINNER: Amazon First Novel Awards
Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize
Finalist: BC & Yukon Book Prize
Shortlist: Indigenous Voices Awards
Finalist: Kobo Emerging Author Prize
National Best Seller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year; An Apple Best Book of the Year; A Kobo Best Book of the Year; An Indigo Best Book of the Year
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.
Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. 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.
Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can’t stop running and moves restlessly from job to job—through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps—trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew.
With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.
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- Alan Scheer
- 2020-09-16
Poor narration,mediocre plot
I have never listened to an audio book with such an annoying narrator.every sentence sounds sing-song and my partner thought it was a computer reading the book. The narration was the worst experience.
It wasn’t until the end when some very moving material appeared,otherwise a very mediocre book terribly read.
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- J
- 2022-02-18
Great story with unfortunate narration
I’m probably not adding anything that has not been said. The story is very good and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning a little about the lives affected by residential schools. It provides insight in that way that historically minded fiction can do very well.
That brings me to the narration. Another reviewer said it very well. That the voices of characters are often very well done but the non spoken internal monologue is done in a very rhythmic mechanical manner with repeated emphasis on the final syllable. It is very distracting to LIS-TEN-TO. And made the overall experience FRUS-TRA-TING.
If I had not committed to reading it quickly I would have given up and maybe tried reading with my eyes. As it is, I found 1.4x speed somehow made it much better and is the only way I finished the book.
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- Tawny McC
- 2020-09-15
great book, needs better narration
I love this book so much I've listened twice. But the second time around I noticed that the narrative voice is very "white" and Indigenous people have very distinct accents. Would have had much better listening experience if it had been narrated by an Indigenous person.
7 people found this helpful
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- Mcpack
- 2021-06-17
Every Canadian needs to read this
This book was such a lovely moving story of strength, and survival, as well as heartache and sorrow. While the subject matter is difficult and hard to listen too at times, I believe it's our responsibility as Canadians to learn as much as we can so we can do better.
6 people found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-06-23
Important story, but poor narration
Such an important story, so listened through... but very difficult with this narration. I had read similar responses in other reviews. Found the narrator did voices well (for the most part) but all the narration in between dialogue had the same mechanical upward inclinations throughout. Feel it detracted greatly from the story itself. But definitely worth it to help build a better understanding of what Canada's Indigenous population may have experienced through the Residential School system and how that trauma has impacted their lives over the years that followed, and in turn, the generations that followed them.
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- T
- 2021-03-11
heartwarming & heartwrenching
So sad that we out people through such an experience. And I have no words for the resilience shown by these characters!
Already recommending!
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- Joanne Robertson
- 2022-03-28
Beautiful Canadian story, unfortunate narration
This story, based on so many horrible Canadian stories of residential school, is both heartbreaking and heartwarming. Beautifully written by MIchelle Good with unforgettable characters and compelling stories of family, intergenerational suffering, love, and resilience. Narration on the audio version was not good. Why choose an American/hispanic actress who reads way too fast to play the role of Indigenous characters in this story? It was really difficult to listen to her. Wish now that I had read the print version. That said, I would listen to this audio book again again if they chose to re-record it with a culturally appropriate Indigenous Canadian actress/narrator.
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- S Gibbon. Kingston ON
- 2021-07-01
A very timely read about Indian schools
I quite enjoyed this book . Its was my 2nd audible . The author very cleverly wove the characters and stores together and sometimes you needed to listen very carefully to a following chapter to what had happened to a character such as Howie .
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- Angela Whittleton
- 2021-06-07
Heartwrenching
Beautifully told story of the heart breaking truth of residential institutions. The truth will prevail.
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- Reidster
- 2020-04-22
too upsetting
I couldn't finish this because it was too disturbing. I couldn't listen to all the violence and tape
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- Angela Nelson-Heesch
- 2021-07-20
Read it yourself.
The story is powerful but the performance gets in the way and makes it hard to get lost in it. It’s a barrier to feeling the emotions that the author evokes
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- Wintermute
- 2022-05-12
Great Story; Horrible Narrator
This is an important story that deserves a better narrator. I had to switch to Kindle after the first chapter because the voice sounded like disconnected AI. The repetitive cadence suggests the narrator had no idea what was being said.
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- Lynn
- 2022-03-20
Real Experiences, Poorly Narrated
Residential Indian Boarding Schools in Canada and the US stole children, their futures, their families, their communities. The impacts reverberate today. The book tells the story of 5 such individuals, residential school survivors, and how they cope following their experiences in an honest and compassionate way.
The narration here, though, is poor. The reader fails to capture the spirits and nature of the characters. A Canadian/First Nations narrator would have added credibility. An E for Effort for the Boriquen narrator but it missed the mark for me.
As another reviewer wrote, read the book yourself. Use your voice to give the characters voice. It’ll make a better story.
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- all our stories
- 2022-02-27
A powerful story
A powerful story, more fact than fiction, to those who endured abuse and the misuse of power. Survival does not erase pain nor can a wounded heart be healed by reparation, until the abuse is exposed and acknowledged.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-02-25
So badly narrated.
I’m wondering who chooses the actors and directs them? This is the second book that I’m listening to that is so badly narrated. It feels like the narrator has no connection to the content of the book, neither the ability to give it emphasis and warmth. It’s read in a very sterile way with a repetitive language melody.
I was really interested in the book, but had to stop after the first couple of chapters, because it just doesn’t do it justice.
Very sad.
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- Robert
- 2023-01-25
A must read
Well told tragic story following 5 residential school survivors. Excellent narration for this version.
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- Denice Hein
- 2022-12-08
5 Voices to Hear
The story was amazing. I had a hard time with the narrator at the beginning. But within 2nd chapter I was hooked by the unique and terrifying stories of the Native children and their life experiences. History that needs to be hear by all!
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- C. A.
- 2022-11-28
A must read for all Canadians
A history of children suffering right under our noses and the entities -religious, law enforcement, and civilian - that didn’t even bat an eye. It’s also a truth of how sometimes sharing splits the pain
for some, but for others the damage is too harsh for healing.
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- Teresa S. Gulyas
- 2022-11-02
Impact of Indian boarding school on life
Well-written book about the lives of four North American Indians and their lives at boarding school and afterwards. Describing the impact that the abuse they suffered had on each of them was sad at times, enlightening at others.
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- Brenda L. Travis
- 2022-10-03
History of a Lost People
I enjoyed listening and wondered how people could be so inhumane to another. I was delighted with an ending of hope.