In the midst of a merciless winter, a small Anishinaabe community is plunged into darkness. For days, the power — and all means of communication with the outside world — has been cut off. Faced with the cold and the shortage of food, panic rumbles. Then, a white man arrives, fleeing the collapse of society in the South, followed by others. Their presence stirs up tensions and divides allegiances. Threatened by chaos, young friends turn to Anishinaabe land and tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again, finding the strength to resist in disaster. Snow of the Broken Moons testifies to a real present, that of a modernity whose model is coming to an end, eroded by its inequalities and its dominant culture. Waubgeshig Rice creates ethereal suspense, inspired by the myths and legends of the ancients, whose apparent simplicity hints at lessons about belonging, identity and the future of the world. He finds, in the colonial vision of the apocalypse, the path to rebirth.
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