The book saw initial success and is now seeing a resurgence in interest since COVID-19. to think that he can just go to a rez.' But that was the sort of validation I needed to write this Justin Scott character," Rice said. "I kind of thought, 'This is very presumptuous. The man said it was a perfect place for him to hide out, and that people in nearby reserves know how to hunt and fish. the first place I'm going is to the rez,'" Rice recalled. If it all went down, if things fell apart here in the city. Somewhere, is nodding his head and going 'yep.' If you haven't read Moon of the Crusted Snow, you should.- were talking about if things go down … and he out of the blue says, 'Yeah. Rice, a journalist and author from Wasauksing First Nation, said at first he wasn't sure this Justin Scott character would be believable, but a conversation with a man at a house party changed that. With no cell or satellite service, the community is cut off - until a new character appears: a white man who travels up to the reserve from the South, seeking refuge. Moon of the Crusted Snow follows a northern Anishinaabe community, and what happens when the power suddenly goes out. "I wrote that plot point of Moon of the Crusted Snow just as a what if, not as a how-to guide."
"It kind of blew my mind - very confusing," Rice said. Quebec couple fleeing COVID-19 'endangered' Yukon First Nation, chief says.When news broke that a Quebec couple travelled thousands of kilometres west to the fly-in community of Old Crow, Yukon, in an apparent attempt to avoid COVID-19, many people on Twitter linked it to a major plot point in Rice's post-apocalyptic novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction - but Waubgeshig Rice was not prepared for a fictitious storyline he wrote to become reality.
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