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Moon of the Crusted Snow

  • 224 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2018
  • 2 editions

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1 About this book

A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice.

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow.

The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision.

Good for readers who want: dystopian fiction, horror, and the end of the world.

  • Indigenous peoples
  • Dystopian fiction
  • Horror
  • Indigenous
  • Science fiction
  • Thrillers
  • City and town life
  • End of the world

2 About Waubgeshig Rice

Born 1979

Waubgeshig Isaac Rice is an Anishinaabe writer and journalist from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound, Ontario. Rice has been recognized for his work throughout Canada, including an appearance at Wordfest's 2018 Indigenous Voices Showcase in Calgary.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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