Nat and Nina discuss Moon of the Crusted Snow, a 2018 novel set in a far northern Anishinaabe community just after an apocalypse. This time we get to talk with the author, Waubgeshig Rice himself, about monsters, masculinity, and surviving beyond apocalypse.
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With Waubgeshig Rice
Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His first short story collection, Midnight Sweatlodge, was inspired by his experiences growing up in an Anishinaabe community, and won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His debut novel, Legacy, followed in 2014. A French translation was published in 2017. His latest novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, was released in October 2018 and became a national bestseller.
