If an unimaginable calamity befell global infrastructures, everyday life would screech to a halt. But what of people who never fully left their old ways behind? It’s a key point of Waubgeshig Rice’s eagerly anticipated Moon of the Turning Leaves, and he will appear on a Ocean County Library Virtual Author Talk on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m.

Moon of the Turning Leaves is a stirring story of Indigenous identity, survival and rebirth that carries forward from Rice’s internationally bestselling 2018 debut Moon of…