The bestselling author of The Berry Pickers returns with Waiting for the Long Night Moon, new fiction that explores the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place—from contact with the first European settlers to the forced removal of Indigenous children to the present-day fight for the right to clean water
In this intimate collection, Amanda Peters, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal, melds traditional storytelling with beautiful prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A grieving mother finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. A nervous child dances in her first Mawi’omi. And in the Indigenous Voices Award–winning title story, a man living alone in the woods is visited by a doe who conjures memories of his sister.
At times sad, at times disturbing, but always redemptive, the stories in Waiting for the Long Night Moon will remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, most important, there is power.
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Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Dalhousie Review, and Filling Station Magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. She is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto.