Searching for Missing Persons in “Waiting for the Long Night Moon” - Chicago Review of Books

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Searching for Missing Persons in “Waiting for the Long Night Moon” - Chicago Review of Books

In the opening story of Amanda Peters’ new collection, Waiting for the Long Night Moon, a child watches at a distance as strange people arrive on the shore. The child’s father recognizes these “pale ones.” He promises his child, “They have come before, and they will leave again.” The child isn’t so sure.Waiting for the Long Night Moon comprises vignettes and short stories told mostly from the first-person perspectives of Indigenous people from t…