She later sits in a language class and watches the teacher and can tell the extent of his abuse by how he holds his body and teaches her peoples language. A fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything youve ever read from the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled. A scene rolls out of the main character being in a room with another girl whilst a drunk man has sex with the other figure. She discusses the numbness after rape and begins to get high on butane and other chemicals. The narrator discusses how her body just knows how to walk on the ice and the 'cute boy' in class.

As a teenager, she becomes pregnant in an environment characterized by rampant substance abuse, sexual violence, the residential school system and its intergenerational.

During the event, the narrator and her cousin fight a figure in the spirit world which then echoes into moments of disassociation - returning to that spirit world. Split Tooth Overview Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth is a coming-of-age novel following the unnamed protagonist and narrator, an Inuit girl growing up in Nunavut in the 1970s. Our second section follows a few scenes that find the narrator continue experiencing and interacting with the spirit world, experimenting with chemical induced highs, connecting with the land, her peoples culture and mourning the disconnect growing between that culture and the culture being forced on those that go to residential schools.Īfter a brief poem on indifference and sickness, it begins with a scene in an adult free space where children get to be children. Tanya Tagaq CM is an improvisational performer, avant-garde composer, and experimental recording artist who won the 2014. I am finding that I love her word choice, her descriptions of people and the back and forth between poetry and prose. I will post a few discussion themes at the bottom but please post any of your thoughts or the parts that made you think or the parts that you enjoyed the rhythm and words of.

Again this section was quite a hard read.

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