Tag: Name

My Name Is Iris A Novel


Free Download My Name Is Iris: A Novel by Brando Skyhorse, Alejandra Reynoso, Simon & Schuster Audio
English | August 1, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BX775LBP | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 8:53 h | 244 Mb
Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with a riveting literary dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens-a powerful family saga for fans of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind.
Iris Prince is starting over. After years of drifting apart, she and her husband are going through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She’s moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, and has plans for gardening, coffee clubs, and spending more time with her nine-year-old daughter Melanie. It feels like her life is finally exactly what she wants it to be.

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Kinauvit What’s Your Name The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for Her Grandmother [Audiobook]


Free Download Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for Her Grandmother (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7Y7S9YW | 2023 | 6 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Dr. Norma Dunning
Narrator: Dr. Norma Dunning

From the winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System. In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, tied to a colonial institution retired decades ago: ‘What was your disc number?’ "Still haunted by this question years later, Dunning took it upon herself to reach out to Inuit community members who experienced the Eskimo Identification Tag System first-hand, providing vital perspective and nuance to the scant records available on the subject.

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