We tell our children Wee’git stories to teach them about protocol, or nuyum. “Wee’git is a transforming raven and he has a very specific role in our culture. When he starts to see animal spirits and strange ape-men everywhere, his mother admits that his father is a trickster named Wee’git. Jared is followed by a chatty raven, who later claims to be his real father, and an old woman who appears to have a creature moving beneath her skin. Son of a Trickster is exactly as slippery as a trickster tale should be, changing direction and shape, even as you convince yourself you know what is going on, and what will happen next. Robinson’s writing leads readers down a path in which Indigenous spiritual and supernatural worlds collide with the everyday world of pop culture and high school coming-of-age narrative.
He financially supports his unemployed father and his mother’s addiction, erratic behaviour, and love life, are a constant source of stress. His northern town, Kitimat, is being torn apart by a pipeline debate, with one side for jobs, and the other fighting to protect the land. The story’s protagonist, Jared, lives in the basement of his mom’s house and gets by selling drugs to other kids at school. This unique, genuinely surprising novel is a blend of difficult coming-of-age story, with mythic fiction, and it is powerfully subversive.
She weaves together traditional Indigenous narratives, with contemporary tales of violence and survival. Robinson is a member of British Columbia’s Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. The second title, Trickster Drift, was also a bestseller and the third volume, Return of the Trickster, is set to be released in March 2021. The first book in Robinson’s Trickster trilogy, Son of a Trickster, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and Canada Reads 2020. Son of a Trickster is a 2017 coming of age novel by Eden Robinson.
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