Split Tooth
- £14.99
- Available
- Paperback published on 03/10/2023
- Page count: 190 pages
- ISBN: 9781913505806
Quick take
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.
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.
Synopsis
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 difference between them. An Inuk girl grows up in Nunavut, Canada, in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this. In this acclaimed debut novel - haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once - Tanya Tagaq explores the grittiest features of a small Arctic town and the electrifying proximity of the worlds of animals and of myth.
Content Warning
- Sexual abuse
- Child abuse
- Infanticide
About the author
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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