![]() ![]() Maisie turns to increasingly harmful coping mechanisms to hide her internalized pain. The scars on the outside can fade away, but the school has left each of them with a deep, ragged wound in the shape of a “craving, insatiable empty place” within. Their families have become strangers after 10 years of separation. The residential school has taught them nothing but how to scrub and clean, do laundry, and bear constant abuse. Those who managed to escape from the school still find themselves running, and those who were unceremoniously kicked out the day they turned 16 must find a way to get by in an unfamiliar city. Whether they survived-or will survive, as making it out of the school doesn’t necessarily mean a long life after that-is another matter. ![]() ![]() Brilliant, unrelenting, and ultimately healing, Five Little Indians tells the story of five residential school students in the 1960s. ![]()
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