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Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory Norma Dunning brings together six powerful short stories centered on modernday Inuk characters in Tainna Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy from spiritual to jaded from 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 reunion between sisters Sila and Amak ends in an uneasy understanding From the spirit realm Chevy Bass watches over his imperiled grandson Kunak And in the title story the brokenhearted Bunny wanders during a freezing night onto a golf course where later a flock of geese stand vigil until her body is discovered by a kind stranger Norma Dunnings masterful storytelling uses humor and incisive detail to create compelling characters who discover themselves in a hostile land where prejudice misogyny and inequity are most often found hidden in plain sight There they must rely on their wits artistic talent senses of humor and spirituality for survival and there too they find solace in shining moments of reconnection with their families and communities