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

In the vein of the bestsellers I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, a penetrating, deeply moving account of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them.

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

Journalist Jessica McDiarmid meticulously 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 in which Indigenous women and girls are overpoliced yet underprotected. McDiarmid interviews those closest to the victims—mothers and fathers, siblings and friends—and provides an intimate firsthand account of their loss and unflagging 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 four thousand—contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country.

Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for the victims and a testament to their families’ and communities’ unwavering determination to find it.


Author:

  • Jessica McDiarmid

Narrator:

  • Emily Nixon

Format:

  • Audiobook
  • E-book

Duration:

  • 9 h 58 min
  • 264 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • True stories
  • True crime

4.5

15 ratings

Betka

5/2/2024

Jeg hadde ikke trodd at dette skulle være en så hjerteklemmende lesning... Boken handler om de forsvunnede, voldtatte og drepte urfolksjentene langs motorveien mellom Prince Rupert og Prince George i nordvestlige Britisk Columbia, Canada. Vi blir kjent med et dusin av dem - deres liv, personlighet, planer for fremtiden, og omstendighetene rundt deres forsvinning. Jeg føler en voldsom urettferdighet når jeg leser om hvordan urfolk ble behandlet på sine egne landområder gjennom historien. Rasisme, politiets ignoranse og inkompetanse, offer-skyldleggelse. Alt dette er konsekvenser av kolonisering - å frata urfolk deres rettigheter, undertrykke deres språk, identitet, familieoppløsning og nedvurdering av kvinners status. Etterforskere og media behandlet de hvite savnede jentene helt annerledes. Denne boken er en hyllest til disse unge kvinnene og deres familier, samt til de som engasjerte seg for å hjelpe. Forfatteren skriver med utrolig empati og respekt, jeg anbefaler den, selv om den er en trist lesning.

Anina

3/15/2024

En fantastisk bok. Kan være litt tunglest, men det å få et innblikk i disse livene som for alltid vil være ødelagte pga noens forbrytelser og andres «motstand» for å gjøre noe med det er vondt å lese. Samtidig så må man også beundre de familiene som har blitt rammet, deres vilje og mot til å fortsette å sloss for rettferdighet og beskyttelse for de døde, savnede og fremtidens kvinner langs denne veien.

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    Jessica McDiarmid

    Jessica McDiarmid is a Canadian journalist who has reported on human rights and social justice from around the world. She grew up near the Highway of Tears and has been investigating the murders for the past five years. This is her first book.

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