When Lester Desjarlais, a young Ojibwa boy, took his own life, what began as a routine inquiry into yet another Indigenous suicide grew into a wide-ranging examination not only of his community but of the larger society which failed to save him. The 1991 inquest into his death, scheduled to last a day, broadened into one of the longest in Manitoba's history -- uncovering a tragic story of abuse, family suffering, and finally, tragedy.

"A Phyllis Bruce book."