The Education of Augie Merasty
A Residential School Memoir - New Edition
by Joseph Auguste Merasty
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Pub Date 04 Mar 2017 | Archive Date 24 Mar 2017
Description
The harrowing story of one Indigenous child's experience in Canada's residential schools
Named the fourth most important “Book of the Year” by the National Post and voted “One Book/One Province” in Saskatchewan, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and Mail to become a national bestseller.
Publishers Weekly called the book “historically significant,” and The Toronto Star recommended it as a must read for “any Canadian interested in truth and reconciliation.” Writing in The Globe and Mail, educator J.D.M. Stewart noted that it “is well suited to a teenage audience because of its brevity and frankness.”
This new edition includes a Learning Guide that deepens our understanding of the residential school experience, making it ideal for classroom and book club use. It also features a new postscript by David Carpenter, describing how the publication of his memoir changed Augie Merasty’s life.
A Note From the Publisher
The study guide includes background information on residential schooling and questions on Indigenous people in Canada, assimilation, intergenerational trauma, and reconciliation. This section also includes guidance for teachers on addressing sensitive topics such as sexual abuse.
Aimed at ages 13 and above, this short, moving book is an excellent resource for teaching reconciliation and the history of Indigenous peoples to Grades 8 and above.
Advance Praise
"At 86, Augie Merasty has been a lot of things: Father. Son. Outdoorsman. Homeless. But now he is a first-time author, and the voice of a generation of residential-school survivors.... The Education of Augie Merasty is the tale of a man not only haunted by his past, but haunted by the fundamental need to tell his own story... one of the most important titles to be published this spring." - Globe and Mail
Marketing Plan
- inaugural title for One Book, One Province Saskatchewan, a library reading club that will run across the province in March 2017
- editor David Carpenter and Augie Merasty's daughter Arlene will do media interviews reflecting on how the book changed Augie's life, and the influence of the TRC and the progress of reconciliation for Indigenous peoples
- marketing campaigns to schools across Canada and the U.S.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780889774575 |
| PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 150 |
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