![]() ![]() If not for Jared’s efforts, his father’s new wife and her pregnant daughter might be homeless. ![]() It falls to Jared to cover his father’s back rent. Disabled in an industrial accident, Jared’s father squanders his disability checks. Jared’s commercial efforts are not self-centered. This protectiveness takes odd forms, from actively supporting his low-level career as a purveyor of pot-laced cookies to encouraging him to learn how to use a pistol properly 1. Jared lives with a mother who despite her many foibles - not least of which are her anger management issues - is more responsible than Jared’s father. His parents divorced after moving to Kitimat. She’s not entirely right but she’s also not entirely wrong. Look even closer if you have the sight, as his maternal grandmother does, you might have reason to think that he’s really Wee’git, the trickster. ![]() Look closer and you’ll see a First Nations kid who’s dealing with more than he should be expected to handle. Jared Martin might look like just another a drifting loser high-schooler. 2017’s Son of a Trickster is the first volume of Eden Robinson’s Trickster trilogy. ![]()
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