Waiting for the Long Night Moon

Summary

In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishinglywide spectrum in time and place—from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal ofIndigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean waterIn this intimate collection, Amanda Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describethe dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. Ayoung 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. And a nervous child dancesin her first Mawi’omi. The collection also includes the Indigenous Voices Award-winning and title story “Waitingfor the Long Night Moon.”At times sad, sometimes disturbing but always redemptive, the stories in Waiting for the Long Night Moonwill remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, mostimportantly, there is power.