Waiting for the Long Night Moon by Amanda Peters

In this intimate collection, Peters melds traditional storytellingwith beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliationsof 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 young woman finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. An old man remembers his life as he patiently waits for death. And a young girl nervously dances in her first Mawi'omi.

At times sad, sometimes disturbing but always redemptive, the stories inWaiting for the Long Night Moonwill remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, most importantly, there is power.(From Harper Perennial)

• 52works of Canadian fiction coming out in spring 2024

Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi'kmaq and settler ancestry living in Annapolis Valley, N.S. Her debut novel The Berry Pickers won the Carnegie Medal of Excellence, was a finalist for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was named one of CBC Books' best fiction books of the year. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers' Trust Rising Stars program.

Interviews with Amanda Peters

Q16:16Amanda Peters: The Berry Pickers, the complexity of trauma and guilt, and writing flawed characters

Amanda Peters's debut novel The Berry Pickers has been getting rave reviews. She tells Tom how a road trip to Maine with her dad inspired the story, the complexity of writing about trauma, and how being a storyteller has helped her find a better sense of community.

The Next Chapter3:10Amanda Peters on The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters on the inspiration behind her novel, The Berry Pickers

Other books by Amanda Peters