This is not a book that I would normally pick up, but it is one of the Canada Reads finalists so I decided to give it a go. 
 I finished it yesterday, and it is still sitting with me. In my head and in my heart. While I have read a lot about the residential school issues, this novel made it very real. There is both tragedy and triumph here, although the latter is somewhat muted by the former. Every Canadian should read this to attempt to understand what we have done to the aboriginal peoples in our country. 
 Highly recomended.