Tanya Tagaq steps out onto an unfamiliar stage – NOW
September 12, 2018
The Toronto-based Inuk musician is uncharacteristically nervous about her literary debut, but Split Tooth will get you in the gut, heart and mind as much as her music does
TANYA TAGAQ in conversation with KENT MONKMAN at Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles), Tuesday (September 25), doors 6 pm. $15. eventbrite.ca.
Tanya Tagaq enters the Ossington restaurant with her hair damp from the shower and a story spilling out of her about a sexy dream she had the night before involving a handsome, well-known film actor.
She’s wide-eyed and laughing at the contents of her imagination. Her candour and sweet, soft speaking voice make you warm to her instantly, much the way you instantly warm to the beleaguered teen girl protagonist in the Polaris Prize-winning experimental musician’s equally experimental debut novel, Split Tooth, out September 25 with a sure-to-sell-out launch that night.
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