Moon of the Crusted Snow-which you can order here-is set in an Anishinaabe community in the north. Waubgeshig Rice is a writer and journalist originally from the Wasauksing First Nation. With more and more unmarked graves of children found around the sites of residential schools, with the increased publicity throwing residential school survivors back into post-traumatic stress, with indigenous communities deep in mourning and non-indigenous folks wanting to stand in support, at least most of us (I hope) with climate change causing record heat in western Canada to the point where elderly and isolated people are dying alone with COVID raging in Africa and other low-vaccination areas, meaning most of the world… I would say chilling and warm and distressing, although that’s a bit of a mouthful to put on a cover, and who wants to read a distressing book in what’s already a distressing time? “Chilling in the best way possible,” says the cover quote from novelist Eden Robinson. To mark Canada Day, I thought I’d write about Waubgeshig Rice’s award-winning novel Moon of the Crusted Snow.
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