Nirliit

Synopsis of Nirliit

Nirliit is a novel by Juliana Léveillé-Trudel that tells the story of a young woman from Quebec who travels every summer to the Inuit town of Salluit to work. Through her eyes, we meet Eva, a recently deceased Inuit friend, to whom the narrator tells about the land she left behind, her companions, and the hard life in the north, marked by violence, cultural assimilation, dependence, and racism, but also by hospitality, ancestral culture, and wild nature. Nunavik, the land of the Quebec Inuit, is revealed to be as beautiful as a punch in the stomach, as are the moving stories of love and friendship that flourish in this endless tundra.