Split Tooth

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Award
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Prose Published in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit singer who dazzled and captivated the world with music he'd never heard before, a fierce, tender, and heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.

Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as delightful. In the end, there may be no difference between them.

A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, friendship, and parental love. She knows boredom, apathy, and intimidation. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and the 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 around her and the immense power that dwarfs us all.

When she gets pregnant, she has to navigate all of this.

Seeing back and forth between the grittier features of a small Arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the animal world, and the 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.

Haunted, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memory, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and evokes a world and a heroine readers will never forget.