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Author:

McDiarmid, Jessica, author.

Title:

Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls [Large type] / Jessica McDiarmid.

Format:

[Large type] /

Edition:

Center Point Large Print edition.

Publisher:

Center Point Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

447 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Subject:

Indigenous women--Violence against--British Columbia.
Missing persons--British Columbia, Northern.
Murder victims--British Columbia, Northern.
Indigenous women--Crimes against--British Columbia, Northern.
Indigenous women--British Columbia--Social conditions.
Canada--Race relations.
Large type books.

Notes:

Regular print version previously published by: Atria Books. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

A bright light -- A brick wall -- Part of you is missing -- Falling through the cracks -- The not knowing -- An inch shy of a mile -- Blatant failures -- It depends who's bleeding -- Rising tides -- Breaking a spirit -- This we have to live with every day -- Where were you twenty years ago? -- Canada's dirtiest secret -- Winding down -- The last walk -- Epilogue: A safer place.

Summary:

"This stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia along Highway 16, a 450-mile stretch of dirt and asphalt, surrounded by rugged wilderness and snowy mountain peaks"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1643585592
9781643585598

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1135572260

LCCN:

2019956939

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)