Highway of Tears : A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

McDiarmid, Jessica

ISBN 10: 0385687575 / ISBN 13: 9780385687577

Published by Doubleday Canada, Canada, 2019

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332pp. Green line mark on the top edge, small corner creasing, light soil to outer edges and light creasing from page handling. DJ has light edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 16.2 x 23.5 x 2.9cm, wt750g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Highway of Tears : A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Canada
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385687575
• ISBN 13: 9780385687577
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • True Crime

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Synopsis

A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them.

For decades, Indigenous women have gone missing, or been found murdered, along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the 'Highway of Tears', and it has come to symbolize a national crisis.

Journalist, Jessica McDiarmid, investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate where Indigenous women are over-policed, yet under-protected. Through interviews with those closest to the victims--mothers and fathers, siblings and friends--McDiarmid offers an intimate, first-hand account of their loss and relentless fight for justice. Examining the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settlers and Indigenous peoples in the region, McDiarmid links these cases to others across Canada--now estimated to number up to 4,000--contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in this country.

Highway of Tears is a powerful story about our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing, and murdered, Indigenous women, and a testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.