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As Long As The Rivers Flow (2011)

by James Bartleman(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307398749 (ISBN13: 9780307398741)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Knopf Canada

review 1: This book is a commendable attempt at making Canadians realize the tragedies that occurred in residential schools across the country. The only problem is that it was terribly written, and I rarely say such things. I just found that it was hard to believe the characters' dialogue and the plot was repetitive and predictable. If the plot remained relatively the same and someone like Joseph Boyden rewrote it I think we'd have a winner. Sorry James Bartleman.
review 2: Written by the former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, this is a fictionalized version of what many First Nations children went through in the 60s, 70s, and 80s - forcibly sent to a residential school governed by loveless nuns and sexually abusive priests, being forced to learn English and ignore their... more own language and culture for 10 years, and then return to their homes in northern Ontario to try to live a 'normal' life. Bartleman includes the epidemic of teen suicides that occurred in the generation of children born to these First Nations men and women who didn't feel connections to either culture. less

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