![]() ![]() ![]() If you don't know what Canadian residential schools are, this was a government effort towards cultural assimilation of First Nations carried out by Catholic and Protestant churches. This past week, a mass grave containing the remains of 215 children was discovered outside a former residential school in Kamloops BC. I do take issue with the author linking his text with a real cultural genocide whose effects are still felt today, especially because in The House in the Cerulean Sea, a cultural genocide plot is spun into a feel-good fantasy about love conquering all. I take no issue with using real historical events as inspiration for a fantasy retelling, in which the resulting story is conceptually removed from that history. Why? Because I found out, as of this morning, that author TJ Klune used the history of Canada’s residential schools, and in particular, a cultural genocide tactic called “the 60s scoop” as inspiration for his book’s plot, in which magical children are abducted and placed in a state-run orphanage. The House in the Cerulean Sea has been vaguely on my TBR forever. TW for discussions of genocide against indigenous people, including mentions of death, rape and abuse. ![]() Warning, there's going to be some really tough stuff ahead. ![]()
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