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Flowers on my grave : how an Ojibwa boy's death helped break the silence on child abuse
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

1997

Book

Creators

Teichroeb, Ruth

Description

"When a young Ojibwa boy named Lester Desjarlais took his own life, the inquest into his death became one of the longest in Manitoba's history, unearthing a story of sexual abuse, family suffering, and, finally tragedy. Award-winning journalist Ruth Teichroeb covered the story, and it was the Native women, themselves survivors of abuse, who taught her about the courage it takes to break the code of silence surrounding abuse."

Subjects

Desjarlais, Lester, 1974-1988

More Information

Holding Library

Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

ISBN

0002554291

Statement of Responsibility

Ruth Teichroeb.

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Toronto : HarperCollins

Physical Description

xi, 242 p. 24 cm.

Notes

"A Phyllis Bruce book."

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