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Author Talk: Waubgeshig Rice
February 11 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective: In Conversation with Waubgeshig Rice
Award-Winning and Bestselling Author of Moon of the Crusted Snow
You’re invited to a riveting conversation with bestselling author Waubgeshig Rice to chat about his newest book Moon of the Turning Leaves, the hotly anticipated sequel to his bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. The book is a brooding story of survival, resilience, Indigenous identity, and rebirth. Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. He is also the author of the Independent Publishers Book Award-winning short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge.
About the Author: Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation. His books include the Independent Publishers Book Award-winning 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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