![]() You have to be harder.Īuthor Eden Robinson calls Son of a Trickster “a cognitive screwball gothic with working class people”, and that's too precisely perfect a description for me not to just quote her. 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 otter. ![]() Crashpad is an avid gamer, which is code for having few friends and no social life.With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers Trust Engel/Findley Award, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Crashpad Crashpad is Jared’s closest friend and confidante. A survivor of residential school, Sophia has her own dark past that estranged her from Maggie and Jared. Sophia Sophia is Maggie’s mother and Jared’s grandmother. Sarah is a socially conscious activist, a natural-born rebel, and an unconventional fashionista. Sarah Sarah is a foster child who moves in across the street from Jared. Hundreds of years old, Wade thinks he’s way cooler than he is. Wade Wade is Jared’s biological father, and a mythical Trickster. She self-medicates with alcohol and drugs to drown out the voices in her head. She likes to laugh as much as she likes to party. Maggie Maggie is Jared’s over-protective, hardscrabble, foul-mouthed mom. But he’s also a parent to his parents and doesn’t yet realize that, at his core, he’s a survivor – it’s in his DNA. Like any teenager, he struggles with friends, school, girls. Nathan Alexis Another relative newcomer, Edmonton native Nathan Alexis stars as Jared’s best friend “Crashpad” in Trickster. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she is an enrolled member of the Samson Cree Nation. Georgina is a First Nations film director, screenwriter, and actress. Georgina Lightning Art imitates life as Georgina Lightning plays mother to real life daughter Crystle Lightning (‘Maggie’) in Trickster. She is most noted for her debut role as Spring in the film “The Grizzlies,” for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. ![]() Anna Lambe Anna Lambe is a Canadian Inuk actress from Iqaluit, Nunavut. Kalani Queypo Kalani Queypo is a founding member of SAG-AFTRA’s National Native American Committee and serves on the Advisory Council for Native Voices Theater at the Autry. Crystle Lightning Crystle Lightning, an Indigenous Actress from the Enoch Cree Nation, began her show business journey at a young age. ![]() Joel Oulette Medicine Hat native Joel Oulette makes his starring television debut in Trickster. ![]()
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