Truth Telling, Michelle Good
Truth Telling, Michelle Good
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Truth Telling
Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

Author: Michelle Good

Narrator: Megan Tooley

Unabridged: 4 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/30/2023

Synopsis

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER High Plains Book AwardFINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyFINALIST for the Indigenous Voices AwardLonglisted for the First Nation Communities READA bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge.From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening. Truth Telling also demonstrates the myths underlying Canadian history and the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin modern social institutions in Canada.Passionate and uncompromising, Michelle Good affirms that meaningful and substantive reconciliation hinges on recognition of Indigenous self-determination, the return of lands, and a just redistribution of the wealth that has been taken from those lands without regard for Indigenous peoples.Truth Telling is essential reading for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.

About Michelle Good

MICHELLE GOOD is a writer of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After three decades of working with Indigenous communities and organizations, she obtained her law degree. She earned her MFA in creative writing at UBC while still practising law. Her novel, Five Little Indians, was nominated for the Writers’ Trust Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It received the HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Five Little Indians was also chosen for Canada Reads in 2022. Michelle Good’s poems, short stories and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laurie • The Baking Bookworm on July 06, 2023

4.5 STARS - This small book is a set of seven essays that packs a powerful punch. It is a book that I took my time with, reflect up and reassess what I was taught in school as a Canadian non-Indigenous person, what I saw in the media and read in books. Truth Telling should be required reading in high......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 13, 2023

7 Stars. One for each of these highly important, insightful and incredibly thought provoking essays. Heartbreaking, full of joy, pride and deeply provocative. This book should be required reading in every history class across this country. Michelle Good does it again. “No Canadian can feign ignoranc......more

Goodreads review by Drew on June 03, 2023

This should be required reading. I read this alongside “Sisters of the Lost Nation” by Nick Medina and they worked really well in dialogue.......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on June 19, 2023

A MUST READ! Part brutally honest truth telling of Indigenous treatment in Canada and part personal and family history, this collection of essays are deeply heartfelt calls to action for individuals and politicians to finally make true changes to work towards improving Indigenous relations, treatment......more

Goodreads review by Paul on May 30, 2023

If you've read Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, then you already know that she is a fine writer and a compelling storyteller. Her new book is also compelling and pretty powerful. Introduction: "Truth is more than fact." We need to "move beyond...positional and confrontational relationships and i......more

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