In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness. Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the same monstrous affliction. As he begins to unravel his family's dark history, Church must race to protect the secrets buried deep in bones and blood. A fascinating story embracing Anishinaabe legend, culture, and language, Wrist is set in the fictional town of Sterling and Ghost Lake Reserve, and is Nathan Adler's debut novel. It is the companion volume to Ghost Lake, which won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award in Published English Fiction.

Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is the author ofGhost Lake (2020, Kegedonce Press), a collection of shorthorror and mystery fiction which won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award and ofits companion volume, Wrist (2016, Kegedonce Press). He is co-editorof Bawaajigan – Stories ofPower, a dream-themed anthology of Indigenous writers (ExileEditions). He is an artist and filmmaker who works in a variety of mediumsincluding audio and video, and drawing and painting. Nathan is first-placewinner of an Aboriginal Writing Challenge, and recipient of a HnatyshynReveal award for literature, he has an MFA in Creative Writing (UBC), BFA inIntegrated Media (OCAD), and BA in English Literature and Native Studies(Trent). His writing is published in various magazines, blogs,and anthologies. He is two-spirit, Jewish, Anishinaabe, and member ofLac Des Mille Lacs First Nation. Originally from Ontario, he currently residesin Vancouver.

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