A review by lasdald
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir - New Edition by David Carpenter

3.0

I’d heard really great things about this book, so I’d wanted to like it. But I felt a lot of time was spent on the story of the co-author chasing down Augie (many times rather half-heartedly) and very little on Augie’s actual story. It feels like such a missed opportunity to actually get to know Augie; HIS story beyond just a few of the experiences at residential school. What was he like as a child? What were his experiences before, in the times away from, and after residential school? His experiences at residential school are important and obviously need to be written about, but we aren’t told much about him as a person, which is really unfortunate.