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A review by sarah984
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous by Jessica McDiarmid
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
3.0
I think that this is absolutely an important topic that needs to be spoken about more in Canada and British Columbia (especially since the government is still only kind of implementing the proposed changes piecemeal) but I was expecting more from this book. I found the organization of it a bit confusing since it jumps back and forth in time a lot, and I was expecting a stronger stance taken in the book itself based on the title. The actual book is more of a list of facts than an essay making a statement, and some questionable statements about the RCMP (that one officer saying he doesn't see colour was particularly egregious) are just stated with no clarification or authorial opinion attached.
Graphic: Child death, Police brutality, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Racism, Rape, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation
Minor: Racial slurs, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, and Car accident