#22 — a spider weaves, weaves

giveaways & october's recommended translation

Author

Hache Pueyo
October 31, 2025

Hello again,

There are two giveaways for my upcoming novella CABARET IN FLAMES, one on Tordotcom’s Instagram and the other on Goodreads. Both of them end today, but if you hurry, there’s still time to participate!

(Para brasileiros, a Dame Blanche está sorteando no Instagram três kits com o ebook de Bem Mal Me Quer e a cópia física da versão em inglês até dia 4 de novembro. Clica aqui para participar!)

See you next month,

Hache 🕷️

Split Tooth 🇨🇦

(Tanya Tagaq, 2018)

Fragmentary in nature, Split Tooth follows a young girl’s coming of age from childhood to motherhood as she grows up in 1970s Nunavut. It fluctuates between her school life, friendships and teen parties to the rampant abuse of children and intergenerational trauma in her community to her learning soul projection that allows her to interact with forces like the Northern Lights.

The novel was partially based on the author’s journals, poems and short stories, and while it can be considered in many ways a memoir, it’s much more than that, blending reality and magic, poetry (including some in Inuinnaqtun), illustrations, spirituality and traditional knowledge seamlessly. Some books can’t be classified by genre, either because they combine too many categories at once or because they’re something new entirely, and this is one of them.