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Moon of the Turning Leaves
AuthorWaubgeshig Rice
LanguageEnglish
Release number
1
GenrePost-apocalyptic fiction; thriller
Set inCanada
PublisherWilliam Morrow
Publication date
27 February 2024
Publication placeCanada
Pages305 (hardback)
Preceded byMoon of the Crusted Snow 

Moon of the Turning Leaves is a 2023[1]post-apocalyptic thriller novel by Waubgeshig Rice. It is the sequel to the 2018 novel Moon of the Crusted Snow and picks the story up a decade after Nicole Whitesky lead the surviving Anishinaabe community into the bush in northern Ontario Canada.

Plot

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The story follows a small scouting party lead by Evan Whitesky and his daughter Nangohns as they search for a new home for the community in the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabe, the Great Lakes region in southern Ontario. The scouting party head south out of the bush and into what was a large city of 100,000 people, before the collapse. They are headed for where the birch trees grow by the big water, a place where the elders of the community remember from stories told by the originally displaced Anishinaabe.

Reception

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The novel has positive reviews from Publisher Weekly [2], The Toronto Star [3]and a 4.28 overall score[4] on goodreads

References

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  1. ^ "Moon of the Turning Leaves". Harper Collins.
  2. ^ "Moon of the Turning Leaves - Starred Review". PublishersWeekly.
  3. ^ Wiersema, Robert (25 October 2023). "The Anishinaabe writer whose tour de force novel will break your heart and keep you turning the pages". The Toronto Star.
  4. ^ "Moon of the Turning Leaves". Goodreads. Retrieved 16 July 2024.