A review by yyc_heather
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir, by Joseph Auguste Merasty

4.0

This slim volume, only 76 pages, is a heartbreaking indictment of Canada's residential school system. It should be required reading in every high school in the country. Joseph Auguste Merasty is a survivor of the St-Therese Residential School in Manitoba. Writer David Carpenter worked with him over many years to record the story of his school days, which included harsh living conditions and horrific abuses. As a ghostwriter, Carpenter does a wonderful job of stitching together sketchy details and letting Augie's voice shine through.