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Title: |
Annie Muktuk and Other Stories |
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| By (author): |
Norma Dunning |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772122971 : 9781772122978 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x133x12mm |
| Pages: |
198 |
| Weight: |
.266 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - June 2017 |
| List Price: |
17.99 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Short stories |
| I woke up with Moses Henryâ s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, â Take. It. Back.â I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means business when he means business. I took it back and for the last eight months I have not uttered Annie Muklukâ s name. In strolls Annie Mukluk in all her mukiness glory. Tonight she has gone traditional. Her long black hair is wrapped in intuâ dlit braids. Only my mom still does that. Sheâ s got mukluks, real mukluks on and sheâ s wearing the old-style caribou parka. It must be something her grandma gave her. No one makes that anymore. Sheâ s got the faint black eyeliner showing off those brown eyes and to top off her face sheâ s put pretend face tattooing on. We all know itâ ll wash out tomorrow. â from "Annie Muktuk" When Sedna feels the urge, she reaches out from the Land of the Dead to where Kakoot waits in hospital to depart from the Land of the Living. What ensues is a struggle for life and death and identity. In â Kakootâ and throughout this audacious collection of short stories, Norma Dunning makes the interplay between contemporary realities and experiences and Inuit cosmology seem deceptively easy. The stories are raucous and funny and resonate with raw honesty. Each eye-opening narrative twist in Annie Muktuk and Other Stories challenges readersâ perceptions of who Inuit people are. |
| Table of Contents: |
| 1 Kabloona Red 7 Elipsee 35 Kakoot 57 Annie Muktuk 65 Manisatuq 73 Qunutuittuq 79 Itsigivaa 81 Iniqtuiguti 85 Inurqituq 89 Tutsiapaa 93 Nakuusiaq 97 Qaninngilivuq 101 Samagiik 105 Husky 131 My Sisters and I |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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INDIE Book of the Year Awards (Short Stories)
2018
United States
Winner
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Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
2018
Canada
Short-listed
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Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story | Writers' Guild of Alberta for "Elipsee"
2018
Canada
Winner
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Danuta Gleed Literary Award
2018
Canada
Winner
Awarded By: "The poignant stories in this collection evoke the silent and overt desires, aspirations, successes, failures, and inner lives of its many Inuit characters, including the charismatic Annie Muktuk. The language is invigorating, the tone wry, and the relationships playful and heartbreaking. Dunning crafts a landscape that is at once intimate and mythically vast. Tragedy and humour intertwine in spellbinding narratives that deliver raw emotion and an acute sense of humanity." |
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Trade Fiction | Alberta Book Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta
2018
Canada
Short-listed
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| Reviews: |
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"Norma Dunning's debut short story collection is sensitive, intelligent and intense. Right from the first story, 'Kabloona Red,' in which an Inuit women knocks back cheap red wine whenever her white husband is away, Dunning writes about authentic experience. The narrators are first person or closely focused third, so the Inuit characters' confusion and pain as they struggle to maintain individual and cultural identifies are felt directly.... Strong currents of anger and courage propel the Inuit characters. They are survivors.... I loved this book." Candace Fertile, Alberta Views, March 2018
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"When I read the article, 'What inspired her was getting mad,' about the story behind Norma Dunning’s debut collection, Annie Mukluk and Other Stories, I was not surprised. Acts of justice and revenge factor throughout the book, propelling the stories so terrifically. Dunning wrote her stories in response to ethnographic representations of Inuit people that neglected to show them as actual people, and the result is a book that’s really extraordinary. Because her people are so real, people who laugh, and joke, and drink, and have sex (and they have a lot of sex)." Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This, August 2, 2017
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"Dunning’s stories, nuanced and deeply felt, reach deep into the heart of what it means to be Inuit, into the sacred place where the songs of the north are still sung, visions are still seen, and the spirits still speak. From this place, it is possible to laugh at those who come to destroy. From this place, dignity is maintained and the connection to the turning of the seasons is unbroken. Together with grief for what has been lost, there is power and light in these stories." Kristine Morris, Foreword Magazine, June 29, 2017
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"A successful short story takes us to unfamiliar places, and the 16 stories in this collection certainly fill that bill. It’s a journey deep into Inuit life, with tales of Inuk of all shapes, genders and ages. The title story is at turns funny, violent and cunning: Jimmy tries to convince best friend Moses to stay away from the glorious Annie Muktuk, an arnaluk (naughty woman, according to the glossary) who will cause him grief.” - Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star, November 24, 2017
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"Although [Dunning] deals with serious contemporary realities for Inuit people, she manages to work in moments of humour that flesh out her characters, making them fully realized and complex." -- Matthew Stepanic -- Where.ca, 20170901
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"Jury members praised Dunning for crafting 'spellbinding narratives' centring on Inuit characters that 'deliver raw emotion and an acute sense of humanity.'” Danuta Gleed Award Jurors, June 2018
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# 10 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, September 24, 2017 -- 20170924
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# 6 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, October 01, 2017 -- 20171001
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# 10 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, October 22, 2017 -- 20171022
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