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A review by justabean_reads
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
4.0
This is exactly the book I'd have expected Tanya Tagaq to write, complete with throat singing if you get the audio version. Do I have any idea what happened in it? Not really, no, but it was a hell of a ride. I think it's a mix of modern retelling of stories from Inuit mythology, different retellings of those same traditional stories, scenes from the life of a teen girl in small-town Nunavut, and poetry, all intercut with the throat singing. The writing, like Tagaq's music, is incredibly beautiful. There are so many lines and turns of phrase I just wanted to polish and keep, but on the whole this book was A Lot. Content warnings for sexual violence, animal harm, and body horror, among other things.