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Moon of the Turning Leaves
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"Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit." -- Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter
In this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by Evan Whitesky ventures into unknown and dangerous territory to find a new home for their close-knit Northern Ontario Indigenous community more than a decade after a world-ending blackout.
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.
Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a mission south to explore the possibility of moving back to their original homeland, the "land where the birch trees grow by the big water" in the Great Lakes region. Accompanied by five others, including his daughter Nangohns, an expert archer, Evan begins a journey that will take him to where the Anishinaabe were once settled, near the devastated city of Gibson, a land now being reclaimed by nature.
But it isn't just the wilderness that poses a threat: they encounter other survivors. Those who, like the Anishinaabe, live in harmony with the land, and those who use violence.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780358673255
EAN:
9780358673255
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
320
Authors:
Waubgeshig Rice
Publisher:
William Morrow & Company
Published Date: 2024-27-02
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Great sequel, book was in great condition, and will definitely reread once I finish my TBR list.
I read many fine reviews of this work, which perhaps gave me heightened and unrealistic expectations. The story itself, which is the journey that a group of Native Americans ( spell check won’t let me name them accurately) take in a future society that has collapsed, is okay but not riveting. Not a lot happens, and much of the dialogue is in their language which adds beautiful ambiance to the book but does not endear or animate the characters for those of us unable to understand
I enjoyed the first book but found it to be a bit too depressing. This book kept my interest much more. I especially enjoyed reading their journey and what they saw and ran into on the way. Im assuming there won’t be a 3rd book, but if there was I would love it! Maybe a story about the daughter?? I’d recommend both books but well done on the sequel!
Big SpoilersThis book made me cry. I don’t often cry while reading, but it was such a beautiful story. The characters are rich and realistic. The ending was tragic and lovely. I loved how each person said their goodbyes to Evan, his daughter the last to hold him in his final moments… no words needed between them because of how strong their relationship was.
The first book in this series was pretty good, but this one flopped for me. The characters walk and walk and walk and meet some good guys, and then they walk and walk and meet some bad guys, and then they walk some more and meet some good guys. It's boring, and the simple sentences and lack of beauty in the writing makes reading drudgery.The characters themselves are all so generic and similar that they're nearly interchangeable. They're all patient, they're all kind, they're all loving and wise. The book is nearly 300 pages long, but I never felt I got to know any of the characters and I never felt any sympathy for their plight except in one particular scene.The first book was pretty good; it had some of the same flaws as Moon of the Turning Leaves, but at roughly 30% of the sequel's length, the interesting plot idea was enough for me to overlook them. It is an interesting plot idea. It's just poorly carried out with flat characters and no real climax and denouement.
