Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories [Hardcover]

From the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers

In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes 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 melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare 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. And a nervous child dances in her first Mawi’omi. The collection also includes the Indigenous Voices Award-winning and title story “Waiting for the Long Night Moon.”

At times sad, sometimes 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 importantly, there is power.Longlisted for The Story Prize
San Francisco Chronicle, A Best New Book
An Amazon Best Book of the Month
Ms., A Most Anticipated Title
Kirkus Reviews, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year
Zibby Media, A Most Anticipated Title for Fall/Winter

“This short story collection may be succinct, but Amanda Peters, an author of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry, manages to cover sweeping ground in her second book following The Berry Pickers. These stories bring to life wl3Æ