A review by foldingthepage_kayleigh
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

This book provides an important overview of the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. True crime done with compassion and in collaboration with families and communities, there is justice done in the portrayal of lost loved ones and the joys they had in life. This will make you furious at the inaction, continuous stalling to address these problems and the racially, gendered motivation to disregard Indigenous women’s lives. If you want to learn more about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, check out this book.

I do have to say, two of the most popular books written on this topic are by white women journalists, and it’s worth keeping that in mind while reading these books about why Indigenous Peoples telling our own stories haven’t received the same reach…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Alcohol