Michelle Good Toronto Book Launch "Eliza Sunshine"

Another Story Bookshop and Random House of Canada Present the Toronto launch of Eliza Sunshine by Michelle Good
About this Event

Featuring a reading and conversation with Tanya Talaga. Book signing to follow.

Doors open at 6:30pm; event begins at 7:00pm.

Join us for an unforgettable evening with one of Canada's most beloved writers.

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Five Little Indians comes a powerful family saga following three generations of Cree women and the storytelling tradition that connects them to each other.
“In a sweeping, generational epic, Michelle Good captures the lived experiences of First Nations women caught in the mouth of genocide. Eliza Sunshine moves beautifully, sorrowfully and literally through the devastation of the buffalo slaughter and its aftermath on families, focusing on the impact on women. However, the backbone of this book is not loss, but love—the endless love of mothers and their insistence that we survive to tell our truths. Eliza Sunshine will fill you with hope, anger and pride. All First Nations women are descendants of warriors; their matriarchal power speaks through us, is never forgotten, and is vibrantly felt in the heroic tale of all the women who speak through Eliza Sunshine.” —Tanya Talaga

Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working with Indigenous communities and organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained her law degree as a 43-year-old single mom, and then spent fourteen years advocating for residential school survivors. She earned her MFA in creative writing while still practising law. Her debut novel, Five Little Indians, became a #1 bestseller and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and CBC’s Canada Reads. It was also nominated for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Giller Prize, among other honours. Good’s bestselling book Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada was shortlisted for the Basillie Prize for Public Policy. In 2025, she won the Indspire Award for Arts and was admitted as a member of the Order of Canada.

Tanya Talaga is an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker of Anishinaabe and Polish descent. She is a proud member of Fort William First Nation, in the Robinson-Superior Treaty territory.

For over 20 years, Talaga was a journalist at the Toronto Star and is now a regular columnist at the Globe and Mail. She’s written three national bestsellers; Seven Fallen Feathers, All Our Relations and The Knowing; a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today. It is the focus of a four-part, CBC documentary series that won the 2025 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing. It was produced by Talaga’s production company, Makwa Creative - formed to elevate Indigenous voices and stories through film.

Talaga holds five honorary doctorates, was the 2017/2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, and in 2018, was the first Anishinaabe woman to be the CBC Massey Lecture