Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget.In his treatise Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (2018), Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee) argues that literature is part of a larger struggle across our cultural practices, social formations, and our very selves, to “understand and articulate our humanity.” Literature tells stories about people, and indigenous literatures matter because they tell stories about what it means to be indigenous-in a world of one’s own people, in a world of settler peoples, in a world with other beings who may or may not be human but are nonetheless people, of a sort. Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this.
She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us.
She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. 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 boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. In the end, there may be no difference between them. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.** Fact can be as strange as fiction.
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award **Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Kijk voor 'Split Tooth' bij de volgende boekwinkels:
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