Which book, winner of the Canadian Governor-General's Award for Fiction 2021, assembles six present-day Inuk stories?

Question

Of which book did its author say: “I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.”?

Answer 1

Tainna
The title means "the unseen ones". Author Dr Norma Dunning is Inuk. The publisher describes the work as: "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".