FMV Book Club's April Meeting: Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Name: FMV Book Club's April Meeting: Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
Start: 2025-04-28T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-28T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Bergen Assembly

Schedule

Mon Apr 28 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Bergen Assembly | Bergen, HO

Welcome to April’s FMV Book Club meeting!
🌟 April's Book Pick: Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
About the book:
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.
Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them.
A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and 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 that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us.
When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this.
Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and 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.
Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget.
📚 Special Offer:
Our team member Rodolfo Baldinotti can help you order the book through Norli Strandgaten bookstore.
To use this offer, send an email to [email protected] with your full name and contact information.
Rodolfo will share your details with the bookstore, and you’ll be notified when your copy is ready for pick-up (payment directly at the store).
Haven't read the book? Come anyway!
Our meetings are about meaningful conversations inspired by the book's themes. Feel free to read up on the topic and join us for great discussions—and bring a friend!
📌 Join our book club here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/382802586790525
See you there!