Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq is unlike anything you have ever read. Part memoir, part myth, part poetry, this fierce and luminous debut blurs the boundaries between the real and the supernatural, the personal and the political, the ancient and the urgent. Set in the Canadian Arctic of the 1970s, Split Tooth follows a young Inuit girl navigating the brutal realities of colonial violence, sexual awakening, and the wild, unforgiving beauty of the North. Tagaq's prose crackles with the same raw, elemental energy as her legendary throat singing — pulling you deep into a world where spirits walk alongside the living and survival is an act of defiance. Hold this book and feel the cold of the tundra, the heat of rage, the ache of longing. It is a story that demands to be felt as much as read. Author: Tanya Tagaq Publisher: Penguin Random House Genre: Literary Fiction / Indigenous Literature / Memoir ISBN: 9780143198055 Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2018, jurors' choice) Essential reading for anyone who believes literature can be transformative.
