It is being adapted into a TV series set to premiere on CBC in 2020. Son of a Trickster was on the shortlist for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller 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. Jared is only 16, 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. Kaniehtiio Horn is defending Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson on Canada Reads 2020.Ĭanada Reads 2020 will take place July 20-23.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.
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