Waubgeshig Rice will present a reading from his new novel Moon of the Turning Leaves at two events in Parry Sound this fall
Waubgeshig Rice will present a reading from his new novel Moon of the Turning Leaves at two events in Parry Sound this fall -
To thank his community for their support the first event to launch Moon of the Falling Leaves will take place on 14 October 2023 at Wasauksing First Nation Gathering Centre.
Parry Sound Books and Trestle Brewing Company, with special guests The Friendship Centre of Parry Sound, will host an event at the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts on 22 November 2023. For more information please open the link below
https://stockeycentre.com/event/an-evening-with-waubgeshig-rice/
Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice
Twelve years after the lights go out . . .
An epic journey to a forgotten homeland
It's been over a decade since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy. Evan Whitesky led his community in remote northern Ontario off the rez and into the bush, where they've been living off the land, rekindling their Anishinaabe traditions in total isolation from the outside world. As new generations are born, and others come of age in the world after everything, Evan’s people are in some ways stronger than ever. But resources in and around their new settlement are beginning to dry up, and the elders warn that they cannot afford to stay indefinitely.
Evan and his fifteen-year-old daughter, Nangohns, are elected to lead a small scouting party on a months-long trip to their traditional home on the north shore of Lake Huron—to seek new beginnings, and discover what kind of life—and what dangers—still exist in the lands to the south.
Moon of the Turning Leaves is Waubgeshig Rice’s exhilarating return to the world first explored in Moon of the Crusted Snow: a brooding story of survival, resilience, Indigenous identity, and rebirth.
