The Education of Augie Merasty

A Residential School Memoir - New Edition

By Joseph Auguste Merasty
With David Carpenter
Categories: Indigenous Studies, Indigenous-settler Relations
Series: The Regina Collection
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780889773691, 105 pages, February 2015
Ebook (Kindle) : 9780889773707, 105 pages, February 2015
Ebook (PDF) : 9780889774681, 150 pages, March 2017
Ebook (Kindle) : 9780889774698, 150 pages, March 2017

Description

A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie Merasty is the story of a child who faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation.

"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

This new edition includes a Study Guide that makes it ideal for classroom and book club use, as well as a postscript describing how the publication of his memoir changed Augie Merasty's life.

Reviews

"Historically significant."

- Publishers Weekly