Haunting Lights

A review of Jen Storm’s “Little Moons”
By Derek Newman-Stille

Little Moons is a powerful exploration of the violence inflicted on the Indigenous community, particularly through missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people. It is an examination of grief and how grief shapes us, changes us, and can bring some of us closer to traditions while it may also provoke others to hide from their pasts. 

It is a brilliant exploration of the tradition of beading and the role of beadwork as a method to connect to one’s culture and those beloved family members present and lost to us. It is a story of hauntings, both literally and figuratively as people linger in our memory but also may appear to us as lights.

Filled with provocative silences and powerful voices, this graphic novel is an important one for the Indigenous community and for anyone who has experienced tragic loss and community violence, and especially those who are seeking healing together.