Review: Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

A passionate treatise with elements of autobiography, Michelle Good’s Truth Telling exposes, with devastating detail, the ongoing impacts of colonisation and the residential school system on Indigenous people and communities. 

These essays are an opportunity to hear the passionate heart of the author of Five Little Indians, but also to join Good in an important conversation about Indigenous issues in Canada by listening to her experience as well as detailed research of the harm perpetuated by colonial ideas and ongoing misrepresentation of Indigenous identity. Each essay stands on its own, but as a collection, the essays thoroughly explore the frustration Good and Indigenous communities have with Canadian policy to undermine and undervalue Indigenous voices and claims.

This important text is available for purchase as a preorder now and will be in stores on May 30. Thank you to HarperCollins Publishers and NetGalley for the advanced copy. This is my honest opinion.