If this topic is a trigger for you, I suggest you give this book a pass. This book contains descriptions of child sexual abuse. 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 listeners will never forget. 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.Ī girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. Genre: NON-FICTION, BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, DIVERSE NON-FICTION, THROAT SINGING, ABUSEįrom 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 heard.įact can be as strange as fiction.

Tanya tagaq book