

And as one who straddles both worlds - she didn’t go to such a school but her life has been surrounded by survivors - she’s well positioned to heighten that awareness.

“I choose to believe that this response arises from a lack of awareness,” she wrote.

As she explains in a note to reviewers of her new book, it’s a question that those who never attended such schools - the last of which closed almost a quarter-century ago - have for those who did: Why can’t they just get over it and move on? But as the daughter and granddaughter of people who did, the long-time advocate for residential school survivors says a certain question often comes up. Michelle Good never went to a residential school.
