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

3.0

Good memoir intro to Indian Residential Schools for the late 1920s - 1940s. It’s a very short memoir and is recounted almost in a stream of consciousness format. It was so matter-of-fact about the atrocities the children faced, describing physical abuse, sexual assaults, and deplorable living conditions as if they were to be expected. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it and it was a good primer for other more in-depth memoirs on the topic.