Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig Rice
Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig Rice
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Moon of the Turning Leaves
A Novel

Author: Waubgeshig Rice

Narrator: Billy Merasty

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 02/27/2024


Synopsis

“Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit.” — Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's DaughterIn this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by Evan Whitesky ventures into unknown and dangerous territory to find a new home for their close-knit Northern Ontario Indigenous community more than a decade after a world-ending blackout.For the past twelve years, a community of Anishinaabe people have made the Northern Ontario bush their home in the wake of the power failure that brought about societal collapse. Since then they have survived and thrived the way their ancestors once did, but their natural food resources are dwindling, and the time has come to find a new home.Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a mission south to explore the possibility of moving back to their original homeland, the “land where the birch trees grow by the big water” in the Great Lakes region. Accompanied by five others, including his daughter Nangohns, an expert archer, Evan begins a journey that will take him to where the Anishinaabe were once settled, near the devastated city of Gibson, a land now being reclaimed by nature.But it isn’t just the wilderness that poses a threat: they encounter other survivors. Those who, like the Anishinaabe, live in harmony with the land, and those who use violence.

About Waubgeshig Rice

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His books include the Independent Publishers Book Award–winning short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge and the national bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. Reporting for CBC News for the bulk of his journalism career, in 2014 he received the Anishinabek Nation’s Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling and from 2018 to 2020 he hosted Up North, CBC Radio’s afternoon show for northern Ontario.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on November 18, 2023

When I finished reading Moon of the Crusted Snow, I was left wanting to know the fate of the characters , so I was glad to see there was a sequel. Evan and Nicole, First Nation people of the Anishinaabe tribe, their family and other families who “survived the collapse” have managed to keep on living......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on December 20, 2024

I enjoyed the first instalment of this duology, a post-apocalyptic thriller with horror elements and a lot of heart, so I was very excited to learn that Rice would be writing a sequel. Perhaps my hopes were a little too high, but I found Moon of the Turning Leaves very slow to start, with little ten......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on October 18, 2023

4.0 Stars Moon of the Crusted Snow is one of my favourite books so I was delighted to learn that there was a sequel. This book continues the story from when the first one left off. Honestly I loved the ambiguousness of that book so I didn't necessarily think we needed to see further into this future.......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on September 23, 2024

Enjoyed this one even more than the first book. Didn’t have stories like this to learn about Native American culture, history, perspective, diversity, etc. when I was growing up. Appreciate all the books we have now. Some are better than others, and this one and its predecessor are two of the better......more

Goodreads review by Diana on May 24, 2024

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES tells the fate of an Anishinaabe community in Northern Ontario, twelve years after a detrimental global power failure. It’s been one of my most anticipated releases since I read the first book a few years ago, and it was everything I hoped......more