Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modernday Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy from spiritual to jaded young to elderly and even from alive to deceased Dunnings characters are united by shared feelings of alienation displacement and loneliness resulting from their experiences in southern Canada. In Tainnameaning the unseen ones and pronounced Daennaa fraught r