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Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

3.0

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Yes to the prose, which aims mystical female empowerment at the bildungsroman of growing up in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. There is nothing else like this story. Sadly, no to the poetry, which is kind of anti-poetry: words that vibrate little (and arrangements that are less arbitrary than simply habitual) but assault the reader with single-mindedness. Like its title might suggest, this is a ruthless read that spares no sympathy for its characters or readers.