The Gaslight Dogs Book

Have you ever heard Inuit thoart singing? I recently heard a musical composition for Nanook of the North, and it incorpated the style. If you are a Westener, it's strange, very beautiful, type of music. It's almost like purring cats, except it's not; it really sounds like walking on the snow and ice, but only more so. It's tough but beautiful, but different than the beauty of bagpipes, very different, less warlike and more nature like Apparently, it also could be a dying art form. It is less well known than the Native Americans/First Nations pipe music and Inuint art.

The Gaslight Dogs is like that style of Inuit music, the thoart music. Dogs is a book about cultures, about belonging, about empire, and about belief. Lowachee draws from Inuit culture in her depiction of native people, and from British culture for the invaders. This, however, is not "white man goes native and saves the natives" storyline that we have all seen and read one too many times (the last one came out last year, earned a lot of money, maybe you saw it? And why, is it always men saving the natives?) Both cultures are depicted in a non-romantic and brutal way. It is a brutal beautiful book.