Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover)

Split tooth, Tanya Tagaq

eng

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Split tooth

1044627430

Tanya Tagaq

Alcuin Society award for excellence in Canadian book design, 2018]

A girl grows up in Nunavut 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 of this