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anne978 's review for:
Split Tooth
by Tanya Tagaq
I couldn't connect to this book. Parts of it are pure realism, but then as the story progresses it gets more and more mystical, and lyrical in a way that made me feel only more detached from it than prose because I was not able to appreciate what it was doing. There were parts I found interesting and beautiful, like the description of the tundra, but I don't understand the overall arc and point of this novel.
I don't mind having read it, though. I picked it up in a bookstore last weekend out of sheer curiosity for the setting (the Arctic) and because of its cover, which is something I do so rarely that I can't remember the last time I bought a book that way. I almost always see something online, read about it in a paper, or get something recommended by someone before I buy it. There was something fresh about not knowing anything about a book before reading it, and even though this one didn't appeal to me, it was a good reminder to try something unknown once in a while.
I don't mind having read it, though. I picked it up in a bookstore last weekend out of sheer curiosity for the setting (the Arctic) and because of its cover, which is something I do so rarely that I can't remember the last time I bought a book that way. I almost always see something online, read about it in a paper, or get something recommended by someone before I buy it. There was something fresh about not knowing anything about a book before reading it, and even though this one didn't appeal to me, it was a good reminder to try something unknown once in a while.