![]() ![]() ![]() And he’s got to get his grades up, find a job that doesn’t involve weed cookies, and somehow live peacefully with his Aunt Mave, who has been estranged from the family ever since she tried to “rescue” him as a baby from his mother. And his mother, Maggie, a living, breathing badass as well as a witch, can’t protect him like she used to because he’s moved away from Kitimat to Vancouver for school.Įven though he’s got a year of sobriety under his belt (no thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom), Jared also struggles with the temptation of drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he’s being stalked by David, his mom’s ex–a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. Soon Jared is at the centre of an all-out war–a horrifying place to be for the universe’s sweetest Trickster, whose first instinct is not mischief and mind games but to make the world a kinder, safer, place.įollowing the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the second book in Eden Robinson’s captivating Trickster trilogy. For Maggie it’s simple–Kill or be killed, bucko. The scariest of those dark forces is his Aunt Georgina, a maniacal ogress hungry for his power, who has sent her posse of flesh-eating coy-wolves to track him down.Įven though his mother resents like hell that Jared has taken after his dad, she is also determined that no one is going to hurt her son. Sarah, his ex, is happy he’s a magical being, but everyone else he loves is either pissed with him, or in mortal danger from the dark forces he’s accidentally unleashed, or both. He finally knows for sure that he is the only one of his bio dad Wee’git’s 535 children who is a Trickster too, a shapeshifter with a free pass to other dimensions. When he wakes up naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom’s old house in Kitimat, some of the people he loves–the ones who don’t see the magic he attracts–just think he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. ![]() In the third book of her brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, Eden Robinson delivers an explosive, surprising and satisfying resolution to the story.Īll Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. Ultimately, Sarah cuts herself so severely that she is hospitalized both for her injuries and for psychiatric treatment, and because Jared refuses to engage in magic with her, they break up.NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY CBC BOOKS AND THE GLOBE AND MAIL To do so, Sarah often cuts herself and takes LSD or psychedelic mushrooms in order to feel more alive. Though Sarah doesn’t know it, she is a witch, and she often feels like she’s asleep and is trying to “wake up” (that is, engage with her supernatural abilities). Jared feels the most in love with her when they’re being playful together or caring for the Jakses. Sarah tries to get Jared to be more violent in their sexual relationship, but Jared admits this makes him uncomfortable and that he doesn’t want to hurt her or be hurt. Over the following weeks, they grow closer, often getting high together. Soon after Jared meets Sarah at the Jakses’ house, they have sex, though Jared doesn’t remember exactly how they ended up together. Sarah is sarcastic and politically active-she is very involved in First Nations issues and brings Jared to attend the Idle No More protest to advocate for better environmental policies. After the Christmas break, Sarah’s mom sends her to help care for her grandparents after Mrs. Jaks’s granddaughter and Jared’s girlfriend. ![]()
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