Waiting for the Long Night Moon
- Auteur: Amanda Peters (Canada)
- Soort boek: verhalen
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Catapult
- Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek
- Prijs: $ 27,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Amanda Peters Waiting fot the Long Night Moon review, recensie en informatie
- “Readers who engage will be well rewarded with a meaningful collection centering Indigenous people. Written in a woven style, integrating past and present, the stories often end at deft, surprising, and important moments . . . Stunning . . . Peters’ award-winning debut created an audience ready for anything she writes, and they won’t be disappointed by her memorable stories.” (Booklist)
- “Amanda Peters masterfully takes on complex and challenging subjects such as grief, loss, love, rage and resistance with a range of confident prose, from the subtle and understated to the poetic and resonant.” (Michelle Good, author of Five Little Indians)
Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Amanda Peters
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.
Amanda Peters is geboren in Falmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ze studeerde Fine Arts aan het Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. Ze stamt af van het inheemse volk de Mi’kmaq. Met De bessenplukkers, haar debuutroman, won ze de Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction en de 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. Peters woont in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Haar tweede boek de verhalenbundel Waiting for the Long Moon verschijnt in februari 2025.