A review by anxiousnachos
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

mysterious slow-paced

3.0

This was an unnerving apocalyptic-thriller following an Anishinaabe community during Winter as their contact with the outside world goes dark. Ultimately I think the strength of this novel is also its weakness. I loved the idea of an apocalyptic novel looking at a small community so far removed from usual apocalyptic settings. It helped create such a sense of foreboding and uneasiness due to the sense of ‘not knowing’ what was going on. But the novel also felt very removed from other aspects, like the characters. There was a very literary fiction style of distance to them? A coldness? It actually kind of makes me want to start to get out my English Lit hat and start analysing how everything matches the environment they were in 😂 An unsettling literary thriller but not my favourite style of character exploration, especially for horror.

Content warnings: Violence, gun violence, blood, starvation, cannibalism, death, dead bodies, hunting, animal death, racism 
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