Split Tooth
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Set in the Canadian Arctic in the ‘70s, the book is based on Tagaq’s personal journals. Through poetry, prose and illustration (by artist Jamie Hernandez) we uncover memories of life growing up in a small Inuit town.
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Why we love it
Gritty, brooding and tender, the writing captured our hearts. Expect hints of magical realism that take you on an unexpected journey.
Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no...
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From Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada), internationally celebrated artist Tanya Tagaq is an improvisational throat singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author. A member of the Order of Canada, winner of the Polaris Music Prize (a Canadian equivalent to the Mercury Music Prize), Tagaq is an original disruptor, a world-changing figure at the forefront of seismic social, political and environmental change.
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And Other Stories publishes mainly contemporary writing, including many translations. Their books aim to push people’s reading limits and help them discover authors of adventurous and inspiring writing.