Moon of the Crusted Snow

Name: Moon of the Crusted Snow
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781770414006
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By Waubgeshig Rice

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Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice is a gripping novel that explores the challenges faced by an isolated Anishinaabe community in northern Canada. As winter approaches, the power fails, and communication with the outside world is lost, thrusting the residents into a struggle for survival. The story delves into themes of resilience, cultural identity, and the tension between modernity and tradition.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy stories of survival and resilience set against a wintery backdrop. It offers a unique perspective by delving into the lives of a remote Indigenous community facing a mysterious societal collapse. Its exploration of cultural strengths and human connections amidst crisis makes for a compelling and thought-provoking read.

Moon of the Crusted Snow

Moon of the Crusted Snow imagines a small community on the precipice of winter without power or communication where leaders must grapple with control, restore order, and save their people from a grave fate.

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2023 Canada Reads Longlist Selection

National Bestseller

Winner of the 2019 OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award

Shortlisted for the 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award

Shortlisted for the 2019/20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award

2020 Burlington Library Selection; 2020 Hamilton Reads One Book One Community Selection; 2020 Region of Waterloo One Book One Community Selection; 2019 Ontario Library Association Ontario Together We Read Program Selection; 2019 Women’s National Book Association’s Great Group Reads; 2019 Amnesty International Book Club Pick

January 2020 Reddit r/bookclub pick of the month

“This slow-burning thriller is also a powerful story of survival and will leave readers breathless.” — Publishers Weekly

“Rice seamlessly injects Anishinaabe language into the dialogue and creates a beautiful rendering of the natural world … This title will appeal to fans of literary science-fiction akin to Cormac McCarthy as well as to readers looking for a fresh voice in indigenous fiction.” — Booklist

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 leadership 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 endeavour to restore order while grappling with a grave decision.

Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.

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Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice explores the collapse of modern infrastructure, pushing characters to revive Ojibwe traditions amid the gripping tension of a northern Ontario winter. Critics praise its delicate balance of intimate family scenes and intense survival challenges, with Rice's writing celebrated for its beautiful description and masterful dialogue. The novel stands out as a unique, slow-burning apocalypse story that leaves readers contemplating survival and cultural resilience.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781770414006

Publisher: ECW Press,Canada

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 October 2018

Country: Canada

Imprint: ECW Press,Canada

Edition: No Edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 324

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About the Author

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His debut novel, Legacy, followed in 2014. In 2014, he received the Anishinabek Nation’s Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling. He now splits his time between Sudbury and Wasauksing.