ktxx22's review against another edition
5.0
4.5* this book is powerful and very well written. I appreciate the amount of information the author compiled and can recommend the audiobook’s delivery of that information. If you’ve been living under a rock or haven’t been tuned into the en mass massacre of indigenous girls/women this will firmly drop you in and give you all the details. It will be devastating. It will not make you feel good about the lack of care given to these missing and murdered girls. I will continue to elevate indigenous voices and activism that hopes to bring closure to the families of the women lost.
dashadashahi's review against another edition
5.0
An excellent investigation of the tragic cases on Canada's Highway of Tears. McDiarmid engages with political, historical, cultural, and gender factors that are involved and Canada's government's failure to properly investigate cases and put an end to the issue. I particularly appreciated McDiarmid taking time to explain a missing girl case that occurred around the same time, however, saw much greater attention and money invested into investigating it as she was a white, middle-class woman. A very important comparison.
ksuazo94's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Racism
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Grief, and Rape
ysi06's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
very informative about the history of the indigenous girls and women who have gone missing and or been murdered along canada’s highway 16. devastatingly person-forward. good read
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Death
sara_carey's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
alisarae's review against another edition
5.0
More than 30 women and girls, mostly First Nations, have gone missing along a stretch of highway in rural Northern BC since the 90s. The RCMP has not released nationwide numbers about missing First Nations women. In spite of international attention from organizations such as Amnesty Intl and the UN, and a symposium that led to a long list of practical and relatively easy measures to be taken for the improvement in safety measures for vulnerable persons, little has been done on the Canadian govt's end.
This book is a compassionate look into the lives of nine of the women who have gone missing and it places the spotlight firmly on family members' voices and stories. It also reveals how ill-equipped the RCMP is for dealing with sensitive matters like establishing long-term trust in communities that have been badly abused by govt and law enforcement via racist policies and individuals.
I think this book is important because it brings a sense of gravitas to what is otherwise just a hollow soundbite on the news, if these stories even make it that far. I mean, women and children are dying and there are easy preventitive strategies that are not put into place simply because we don't care about their lives. So yeah, this book talking about and exposing it is really important.
This book is a compassionate look into the lives of nine of the women who have gone missing and it places the spotlight firmly on family members' voices and stories. It also reveals how ill-equipped the RCMP is for dealing with sensitive matters like establishing long-term trust in communities that have been badly abused by govt and law enforcement via racist policies and individuals.
I think this book is important because it brings a sense of gravitas to what is otherwise just a hollow soundbite on the news, if these stories even make it that far. I mean, women and children are dying and there are easy preventitive strategies that are not put into place simply because we don't care about their lives. So yeah, this book talking about and exposing it is really important.
luella01's review against another edition
5.0
This book was incredibly hard to get through just because of the sensitive subject, but incredibly worth reading.