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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Moon of the Turning Leaves
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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In the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they’ve been rekindling their Anishinaabe traditions, isolated from the outside world. As new generations are born, and others come of age in a world after everything, Evan’s people are stronger than ever. But resources around their new settlement are drying up, and elders warn that they cannot stay indefinitely.
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One of my favourites
- By Anonymous User on 2023-12-02
Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
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Moon of the Turning Leaves
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
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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.
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Keeper'n Me
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When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city. Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail.
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Beautiful
- By Krow Fischer on 2019-04-23
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Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle, Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.
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Great book
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Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. But she can still smell the sharp pine scent in the air, the nearest pine tree a thousand kilometres away in the far reaches of Treaty 8.
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as spooky as it was authentic
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Indian Horse
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Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony. Though skeptical, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey from the present - and into the woods of Northern Ontario, where his life began in a snowy Ojibway camp. The tale that follows is one of great pain and great determination from Richard Wagamese, an author who "never seems to waste a shot" ( New York Times).
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Heart wrenching and Humbling
- By Anonymous User on 2018-11-11
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Moon of the Turning Leaves
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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In the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they’ve been rekindling their Anishinaabe traditions, isolated from the outside world. As new generations are born, and others come of age in a world after everything, Evan’s people are stronger than ever. But resources around their new settlement are drying up, and elders warn that they cannot stay indefinitely.
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One of my favourites
- By Anonymous User on 2023-12-02
Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
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Moon of the Turning Leaves
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
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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.
Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
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Keeper'n Me
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Deneh'Cho Thompson, Sam Bob
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city. Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail.
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Beautiful
- By Krow Fischer on 2019-04-23
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
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Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle, Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.
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Great book
- By Tanya on 2023-11-15
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Bad Cree
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- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
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Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. But she can still smell the sharp pine scent in the air, the nearest pine tree a thousand kilometres away in the far reaches of Treaty 8.
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as spooky as it was authentic
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Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony. Though skeptical, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey from the present - and into the woods of Northern Ontario, where his life began in a snowy Ojibway camp. The tale that follows is one of great pain and great determination from Richard Wagamese, an author who "never seems to waste a shot" ( New York Times).
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Heart wrenching and Humbling
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Zoltan Beck is dying. His devoted but long-suffering sons, Ben and Frank, are trying to prepare themselves and their families for Zoltan's eventual departure...but they can't quite bring themselves to believe that the end is really at hand, and neither can Zoltan himself. The head of a family marked by war and tragedy for decades, he "can't stand to be in a room with a miserable person" and has done his best to keep the pain of his refugee past from his beloved children.
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby) - and now she's dead.
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Excellent Story
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The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the best-selling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive power of love, mercy, and compassion - and the land's ability to heal us.
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Didn't want it to end - and it didn't
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Deep in the night, Matthew paces the house, unable to rest. Though his sixteen-year-old daughter, Holly, lies sleeping on the other side of the bedroom door, she is light years away from him. How can he bridge the gap between them when he can’t shake the emptiness he feels inside? Holly knows her father is drifting further from her; what she doesn’t understand is why. Could it be her fault that he seems intent on throwing everything away, including their relationship?
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Very well done.
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A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate.'
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All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom's old house in Kitimat, some of the people he loves - the ones who don't see the magic he attracts - just think he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. The truth for Jared is so much worse.
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Ended not with a bang, but with Aunt Irma
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These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce listeners to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.
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First anthology i’ve consumed in 15 years
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Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up — or are re-opened — across the land to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams.
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Great Storytelling
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
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Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer. The Indian Act, after 141 years, continues to shape, control, and constrain the lives and opportunities of Indigenous peoples, and is at the root of many lasting stereotypes.
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Essentially Canadian - Must Read.
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Split Tooth
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A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy and friendship and parents' love. She knows boredom and listlessness and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this.
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Beautiful, haunting and chilling. It's visceral.
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Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she’s hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers.
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Hard listen
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
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In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing, and representation.
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Profoundly vulnerable and robustly analytical
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Publisher's Summary
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 endeavor 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.
What the critics say
“Perfect for those who read Iain Reid’s Foe this summer and are looking for something in the same vein.” (The Globe and Mail)
“The creeping tension and vividly drawn landscapes make Waubgeshig Rice’s characters’ choices all the more real.” (Toronto Star)
“Moon of the Crusted Snow asks how do we live in a good way during the collapse of the infrastructure that supports modern life? For Evan Whitesky, the answer lies in rekindling Ojibwe, the old ways, language and culture. For other characters, when the food runs out, all options are on the table, no matter how gruesome. As the tensions between those surviving the end of modern civilization build to a harrowing conclusion, Rice deftly weaves tender family moments with his brutal survival scenes in the unforgiving northern Ontario winter. Chilling in the best way possible." (Eden Robinson, award-winning author of Monkey Beach and Son of a Trickster)
Go Behind the Scenes of Moon of the Crusted Snow
''What I hope people take away from Moon of the Crusted Snow is that there is hope,'' author Waubgeshig Rice shared with Audible in a conversation held at the 2019 Festival of Literary Diversity in Brampton, Ontario. ''Despite all the darkness that we endure even in modern society, there are things to be hopeful for.''Related Collections
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- TheMer
- 2020-01-31
Enjoyable for ALL Canadians
As a Cree from Northern Saskatchewan I knew almost every character he described making it hit close to home. It's nice to have Waub Rice and now many other Indigenous authors out there to choose from; their perspective is much needed in the literary world. Nitiniki (from my heart).
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- Eagle Loft
- 2019-06-29
Hoping for a sequel
I really enjoyed this novel. It is an interesting peek into a community very different from my own, and yet similar in many ways as well. I appreciated the epilogue, but I still want more and hope for a sequel in future.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2020-06-29
Outstanding!
Loved this story. Enjoyed learning a First Nations perspective on surviving their second apocalypse.The first happened when white men arrived. Narrator was excellent.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-02-13
Highly recommended
I enjoyed this novel. it is rooted in indigenous storytelling with deeper meaning and understanding
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- Pablo W.
- 2019-11-12
Genuinely enjoyed this, inspiring
I enjoyed this book thoroughly. Having worked in and around First Nations for decades I can admit to holding a hopeful curiosity for how these communities would react under a scenario like this.
This book brought me so close to this community that I am now seriously considering booking a week or two on a First Nations Territory up in Northerm Ontario to learn and use my trade skills to help my friend build something on his land there.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-11-12
Realistic apocalyptic scenario from a First Nation point of view
I am not much of a reader of fiction. I decided to try this novel because of the apocalyptic premise and the native view. The concept intrigued me. The realism of the prose helped me immerse myself in the lives of the characters. The slow methodical rhythm of the narrator was spot on. I’ve just downloaded the sequel.
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- Chris
- 2023-11-10
Was expecting a lot more, especially for a credit.
Was a good first book for this author, and their future projects I’m sure will improve, felt the story was fairly tame and predictable, my opinion is it wasn’t worth the price of a credit. Author does an excellent job in describing moods and surroundings.
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- Hermetic Sage
- 2023-11-07
A Dark Revelation
This is a story told well about the drive a perseverance of a community at the point of societies end. It also tells of warnings and cautions against underpreparedness of winter.
I enjoyed it very much.
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- Paragon
- 2023-11-04
Very good
I love it when I find a book that makes my commute something to look forward to
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- Denise
- 2023-11-01
A riveting story!
This is a great story that weaves together Anishinabae culture, settler colonialism, and the strength of the Indigenous spirit! Miigwech Waubgeshig!
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- Malia
- 2019-04-23
Really great book!!!
I heard about this book while listening to CBC. Radio, and wanted to read it as soon as I noticed it was on Audible. I don’t read a lot of post-apocalypse books but I knew I wanted to read this one because it was about Northern Ontario where I used to live. The narrator is excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and hope that many others will want to read it and learn more about the Anishinaabe people, and what it is like to live in North Western Ontario Canada.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2021-02-09
Not for me
If it weren't for the swearing, I would have thought this was a children's book.
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- Jessi McCain Owzarski
- 2019-12-15
excellent
This was a hopeful story with superb naration. I really enjoyed the journey and the detail.
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- Cameron Catanzano
- 2022-04-09
Started off strong, but I wasn’t satisfied with the last half. 3.5.
The world building and set up gripped me from the first pages. I loved the context and their perspective. As a whole, the book has a lot to say to the “apocalypse” genre. The events of the book is certainly devastating, but their relationship with the world that was lost is far more complicated than someone living in Toronto. For an incredibly short read, this premise is worth picking the book up.
However, the strong beginning and gripping premise aren’t enough for a 4 of 5 stars. At the end of the day, I just found the last half of this book to be a bit rushed and the antagonist a bit out of place.
First half of this book was a slow burn and I was in it, but after a certain point, the story begins making time jumps later and later into winter. If the book was longer, I think they could have developed the middle and end much letter. Particularly, I felt there was a need to flush out the antagonist. Otherwise, he just felt a little rushed and a bit flat.
Performance, on the other hand, was an easy 5/5. I was completely engaged. Zero complaints.
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- LegoBlocksAreFun
- 2021-12-06
it was... okay?
helped pass the time...
the story was very predictable, even the "emergency food" in the end and as always "the white man" comes "in peace" and shows himself to be capable and even supportive and defensive of the native people that adopt him, only to do what "all white people do all the time, especially in winter", and it just got boring.
the characters are not that interesting on their own nor are their relationships with each other all that interesting either. this story read less like that of an excitement filled survival at the end of the world during winter time story and felt more like I was reading the Wednesday news stories... and not even page 1 or 2! more like the middle or backpacks, like the stories were trying to be kept hidden.
the voice although I'm assuming is authentic to the story being read aloud, was basically a flat monotone voice regardless of what excitement ir anger or joy was being shared by the characters within the story.
I was disappointed.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-12-01
Slow Burn
Overall I thought this book was great. It was a slow burn, but it never felt boring. I Enjoyed hearing a post-apocalyptic story from an indigenous perspective.
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- Sam Robbins
- 2023-10-31
I loved this book
The mystery, the tension, the characters! I thoroughly enjoyed the perspective this story was told from. I was looking for something similar to 'the only good indians' and this was a perfect follow up. I highly recommend this book for people who are into horror, suspense, or psychological thrillers. The performance was excellent as well!
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- Cassie Hanson
- 2023-07-10
Amazing!
Fantastic novel that blends the post-apocalyptic paranoia so often present in modern fiction with the trauma, struggles, and world understanding of a small First Nations community. It’s incredibly executed with wonderful character writing; I couldn’t put it down. Having it read by an indigenous person was also a unique delight. I heard there may be a sequel coming out and I’m really excited to read it!
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- Maureen Avant
- 2023-07-05
It was okay
The story was very slow. The performance was perfect but the story was just boring in my opinion.
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- threewithglee
- 2023-01-27
Moon of the Crusted Snow is Great
I enjoyed this suspenseful story as it unfolded. Is it a simple power outage or a life altering power black out? I loved the story and having the insight of northern Ontario Reservation life. I really enjoyed the elders take on this life changing situation. The narrator was great too with all the languages. Really a Great Story.
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