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

Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of... Book Reviews ample material to explore their own research interests. Therefore, it is a useful collection for both students and scholars of crime fiction because both its content and citations encourage an exploration of means of identification that extend beyond the literary. DOI: 10.3366/cfs.2022.0062 Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Atria Books, 2019. $28, 978-1-5011-6028-8, 331 pages. Reviewed by Rebecca Martin Jessica McDiarmid’s work on Highway of Tears began in 2009, but the events related date back to the 1970s or, to give the full context as McDiarmid does, to th the mid-18 century when the region of Canada now known as the province of British Columbia experienced the first incursions by Europeans. This book is a deep exploration of events along Highway 16, a stretch of road linking coastal Prince Rupert to Prince George, 725 kilometers inland in the lightly-populated north of the province. The label ‘Highway of Tears’ refers to the dozens of missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls who have disappeared while traveling along it. In creating this narrative, McDiarmid faces the challenge of bringing many stories http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crime Fiction Studies Edinburgh University Press

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

Martin, Rebecca
Crime Fiction Studies , Volume 3 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2022
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Book Reviews ample material to explore their own research interests. Therefore, it is a useful collection for both students and scholars of crime fiction because both its content and citations encourage an exploration of means of identification that extend beyond the literary. DOI: 10.3366/cfs.2022.0062 Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Atria Books, 2019. $28, 978-1-5011-6028-8, 331 pages. Reviewed by Rebecca Martin Jessica McDiarmid’s work on Highway of Tears began in 2009, but the events related date back to the 1970s or, to give the full context as McDiarmid does, to th the mid-18 century when the region of Canada now known as the province of British Columbia experienced the first incursions by Europeans. This book is a deep exploration of events along Highway 16, a stretch of road linking coastal Prince Rupert to Prince George, 725 kilometers inland in the lightly-populated north of the province. The label ‘Highway of Tears’ refers to the dozens of missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls who have disappeared while traveling along it. In creating this narrative, McDiarmid faces the challenge of bringing many stories

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Published: Mar 1, 2022

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