Waiting For The Long Night Moon by Amanda Peters

From the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers comes a debut collection of short fiction that will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.

In these intimate, luminous stories, Amanda Peters explores the Indigenous experience across an astonishing sweep of time and place—from the arrival of the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for clean water. It’s a wide canvas, painted with remarkable tenderness.

Peters melds traditional storytelling with spare, beautiful prose to capture the dignity of a traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism, and the quiet, resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to find he can no longer speak with his own parents. A grieving mother finds purpose as a water protector on the front lines. A nervous child dances in her first Mawi’omi.

The collection also includes the Indigenous Voices Award-winning title story, Waiting for the Long Night Moon—a testament to the strength woven through every page.

At times sorrowful, sometimes disturbing, but always redemptive, these stories remind us that where there is grief, there is also joy. Where there is trauma, there is resilience. And most importantly, there is power.

This is the kind of book you’ll want to linger over on a grey, salty afternoon—the ocean murmuring just beyond the footbridge, a warm cup of tea close at hand.

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