Tainna: The Unseen Ones
with Norma Dunning
Hosted by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm Podcast Fiction
The stories in Tainna are connected by the threads of cultural memory, loss, displacement, racism, and a rich sense of humour… While reading the stories individually is a significant experience, the true potency of the collection is cumulative. Tainna is less a collection of stories than it is the parts of a world, fragile and broken but powerful and dazzling all the same.
Educator, author, editor and publisher. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm hosts a conversation with Dr. Norma Dunning about her latest collection of stories, Tainna: The Unseen Ones.
Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings of alienation, displacement and loneliness resulting from their experiences in southern Canada.
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