Description
At fourteen, Virginie, Marie, and Charles were taken from their families on the orders of the Canadian government. Along with the other children from their village, they were flown to a residential school on an island nearly a thousand kilometers from home to be educated. Their hair was cut, they were washed, and they were given uniforms. They were forbidden to speak their language. Their names no longer existed; they were now just numbers.
Seventy-seven years later, lawyer Audrey Duval seeks to understand what happened at Fort George, the cursed island swept by the merciless offshore wind, and what became of the three young people who mysteriously disappeared.
In this novel, first published in 2013, Innu writer and journalist Michel Jean reveals the little-known story of these young Indigenous people who were forcibly sent away.
A story where love and friendship offer the only defenses against aggression.
and violence.
