Son of a Trickster (2017)
Son of a Trickster is a 2017 american literature book written by Eden Robinson.
Jared is sixteen, sells pot cookies to keep his fractured family afloat, and looks after neighbours and a beloved pit bull with more care than anyone shows him. Eden Robinson sets his story in Kitimat, British Columbia, and threads it with Haisla and Heiltsuk oral tradition. Between the drinking, the money troubles and a genuinely terrifying mother, strange things start pressing in: ravens that talk, blackouts he cannot explain, and his grandmother's certainty that he is not quite human. First in the Trickster trilogy, it is funny, tender and unsettling, an Indigenous coming-of-age novel where the ordinary and the mythic blur.
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What is Son of a Trickster about?
Jared is sixteen, sells pot cookies to keep his fractured family afloat, and looks after neighbours and a beloved pit bull with more care than anyone shows him. Eden Robinson sets his story in Kitimat, British Columbia, and threads it with Haisla and Heiltsuk oral tradition. Between the drinking, the money troubles and a genuinely terrifying mother, strange things start pressing in: ravens that talk, blackouts he cannot explain, and his grandmother's certainty that he is not quite human. First in the Trickster trilogy, it is funny, tender and unsettling, an Indigenous coming-of-age novel where the ordinary and the mythic blur.
When was Son of a Trickster published?
Son of a Trickster was published in 2017.
Who made Son of a Trickster?
Son of a Trickster was written by Eden Robinson.
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A few thoughts on Son of a Trickster
For more stories where Indigenous myth meets modern reservation life, watch the tv series Reservation Dogs, warm and funny about teens on the edge, or Rutherford Falls. Neil Gaiman's American Gods works the same seam of old deities loose in the present. And the game Never Alone, built with Inupiat storytellers, carries a similar respect for oral tradition.
Contemporary fantasy where myth creeps into ordinary life
Son of a Trickster keeps one foot in Jared's messy real life and the other in something older and stranger, ravens that talk and a grandmother who insists he is not quite human. These blur the same line, letting myth and the uncanny bleed into recognizably ordinary lives.