![]() It is a story of a boy born into a magnificent culture. It is a story of a boy born into a violent history. And yet, startlingly, it brings the reader to a place of wonder and mystery and magic. “ Son of a Trickster is filled with darkness and squalor and obscenity. Crisp prose, taut dialogue, and a cast of maniacal characters you sure as hell don’t want living next door.” - Thomas King, author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian “Eden Robinson is a writer with a magical touch. Son of a Trickster is my favourite book this year.” - Annabel Lyon, author of The Sweet Girl and The Golden Mean Talking ravens, party drugs, deadbeat dads, murderous otters, Doctor Who-nobody brings together pop culture, indigenous culture and myth with more ferocity and humour. “If Raven and Trickster got a show on Netflix, no one could write it but Eden Robinson. But don’t let the unruly humour fool you-the book also offers a serious contribution to current conversations about decolonization.” - Quill & Quire Son of a Trickster is a ribald narrative, irreverent and surreal and hilarious and messy. Through protagonist Jared and his dysfunctional family, Robinson teaches us about a kind of love outside of the norm of greeting cards and family sitcoms. “Only Eden Robinson could make a reader fall in love with a smart-ass, alcoholic, drug-dealing sixteen-year-old. Eden Robinson does much to enhance the growing body of Indigenous Canadian literature, but we need even more-at least a trilogy’s worth.” - Maclean’s Jared offers readers, particularly First Nations Youth, a comrade in the angst and alienation of their experience. “Robinson has a gift for making disparate elements come together into a convincing narrative, breathing myth, lore and magic into otherwise harsh realities. Energetic, often darkly funny, sometimes poignant, this is a book that will resonate long after the reader has devoured the final page.” - 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury (André Alexis, Anita Rau Badami, Lynn Coady and Richard Beard) Just when you think Jared’s teenage journey couldn’t be more grounded in gritty, grinding reality, his addled perceptions take us into a realm beyond his small town life, somewhere both seductive and dangerous. “Eden Robinson’s Son of a Trickster is a novel that shimmers with magic and vitality, featuring a compelling narrator, somewhere between Holden Caulfield and Harry Potter. ![]() Shortlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Awardįinalist for the 2018 BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Mind you, ravens speak to him–even when he’s not stoned. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he’s the son of a trickster, that he isn’t human. But he struggles to keep everything afloat…and sometimes he blacks out. Jared is only sixteen but feels like he is the one who must stabilize his family’s life, even look out for his elderly neighbours. He can’t rely on his dad to pay the bills and support his new wife and step-daughter. ![]() Jared can’t count on his mom to stay sober and stick around to take care of him. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he’s also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can’t rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby)–and now she’s dead. The exciting first novel in her trickster trilogy.Įveryone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who’s often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otters. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Fellowship, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. ![]()
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