Split Tooth
Written by Tanya Tagaq
Narrated by Tanya Tagaq
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About this audiobook
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. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them.
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 this.
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.
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.
Tanya Tagaq
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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Reviews for Split Tooth
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tanya Tagaq is such an incredibly talented artist. For the celebrated throat singer from Canada's Far North a book of poetry/myths/memoir isn't that surprising. The book itself was definitely surprising. It was raw, graphic, and deeply strange. I am left thinking of this as more of an experience than just a simple book. Much of the content was quite difficult including substance abuse and molestation and I was distinctly uncomfortable for much of the book. Glimpses of almost visionary beauty and light made the dark seem all the more shocking.
The audio book is read by the author and I can't imagine a better way to really feel her words and emotions. She speaks with so much passion that it doesn't seem like she is reading. The stories feel immediate and visceral, like the events are happening as we hear them. It's rather disconcerting and haunting. The stories and poems are interspersed with short bursts of throat singing. If you're not familiar with throat singing it is partly beautiful and amazing and partly eerie and terrifying. The audio added so much to the words that I think a written version wouldn't have the same impact.