Eliza Sunshine

Name: Eliza Sunshine
ISBN: 9781039011434

by Michelle Good

Scotiabank Giller · 2026 · Shortlist

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Random House CanadaLiterary Fiction Historical FictionISBN 9781039011434

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Scotiabank Giller Prize	2026	Shortlist	“A three-generation chronicle of Cree women, from Eliza's return home after residential school through the stories her nôhkom, Swan, tells and the ones Eliza later tells her daughter, Ella.”

About This Book

A three-generation chronicle of Cree women. Eliza returns home from residential school while her nôhkom, Swan, tells stories of the matriarchs who came before; decades later Eliza recounts her own life to her daughter, Ella. The novel draws on Michelle Good's family history.

About the Author

Michelle GoodCA

Michelle Good is a Canadian author of Cree heritage whose debut novel Five Little Indians (2020) won the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction and the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. The novel follows five survivors of the Canadian residential school system as they try to reclaim their lives in 1960s and 1970s Vancouver. Five Little Indians is a landmark work of Canadian Indigenous literature that brought the horror and legacy of residential schools to a wide readership. Read more →