A The Scotsman Book of the Year 2021. In re-telling the Inuit
stories included here, Richard Price opens out remarkable northern
vistas and unfamiliar narratives, strange gods and unforgettable
characters. Carol Rumens described Price as a poet who is
'brilliant quietly: inventive, sometimes dazzling, but never merely
showy': precisely the talents for rendering, rather than
appropriating these great story-cycles of Inuit culture. Here we
learn of 'Sedna the Sea Goddess' and 'Kiviuq the Hunter', the
central protagonists of the book's remarkable stories. They are
rich in extraordinary incident. In Sedna's world women can marry
dogs and have half-puppy, half-human children; birds beat their
wings so hard they call down a storm on a fugitive kayak; walruses
originate from... well that would be telling. Each story-cycle
abounds in natural wonder, celebrating our creaturely relations
with our fellow inhabitants of land and sea. 'The Old Woman Who
Changed Herself into a Man', a short narrative, bridges the major
sequences, telling the story of an older woman and a younger one
who become lovers in the isolation of their remote home.
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