Virtual Author Visit with Waubgeshig Rice

Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective: In Conversation with Waubgeshig Rice

Moon of the Turning Leaves is Rice’s exhilarating return to a world he first explored in the bestseller Moon of the Crusted Snow. 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 reservation 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 15-year-old daughter are elected to lead a small scouting party on a trip to their traditional home on the north shore of Lake Huron to discover what kind of life—and what dangers—still exist in the lands to the south.

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His books include the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge and the national bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. Reporting for CBC News for the bulk of his journalism career, in 2014 he received the Anishinabek Nation’s Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling, and from 2018 to 2020, he hosted Up North, CBC Radio’s afternoon show for northern Ontario.

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