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JANUARY BUDDY READ
MOON OF THE CRUSTED SNOW by Waubgeshig Rice
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.
*Description from Goodreads.
Genre: post-apocalyptic thriller
Themes: technology, survival, colonialism, oppression, selfishness vs selflessness
Setting: rural Anishinaabe community in northern Canada
Content Warnings: death, gun violence, murder, animal death, racism, cannibalism, suicide, colonization, blood, grief, alcohol, child death, gore, abuse
Reading Breakdown:
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Chapters 1-11
Chapters 12-21
Chapters 22-epilogue
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