The Moon of the Turning Leaves is Waubgeshig Rice’s followup to Moon of the Crusted Snow. Now a dozen years after the world as we know it came to an end, Evan Whitesky and the others from his northern Ontario reservation who survived are facing the fact that in order to thrive as a community, they need to return to their original homeland on the shores of Lake Huron, hundreds of miles to the south. What struck me while reading: how much our current society depends on modern conveniences and how quickly that society can fall apart, and how very small and isolated a person’s world becomes when all those conveniences are taken away. The post-modern world of Moon isn’t a utopia, but—at least for the Indigenous communities—it’s one that can begin again.