Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

ECW Press
In anticipation of Rice’s newly released “Moon of the Turning Leaves,” something of a sequel to this book, I wanted to check this out to learn about Rice’s indigenous perspective of survivors of what might be an apocalyptic event — nobody’s quite sure, but nobody’s turning back on the electricity, either. As people in this northern Ontario reservation community live in growing fear and suffering, some strangers appear that don’t make things better.