- American literature, Fiction, general, Collection:Canada Reads, Collection:Canada Reads 2020
**CANADA READS 2020 FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER** More than ten years after her Giller-shortlisted title Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which everyday teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics and cannibalistic river otters. Meet Jared Martin: sixteen-year-old pot cookie dealer, smoker, drinker and son with the scariest mom ever. But Jared's the pot dealer with a heart of gold--really. Compassionate, caring, and nurturing by nature, Jared's determined to help hold his family together--whether that means supporting his dad's new family with the proceeds from his baking or caring for his elderly neighbours. But when it comes to being cared and loved, Jared knows he can't rely on his family. His only source of love and support was his flatulent pit bull Baby, but she's dead. And then there's the talking ravens and the black outs and his grandmother's perpetual suspicion that he is not human, but the son of a trickster.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Eden Robinson
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345810793
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Eden Robinson is the author of the bestselling Trickster trilogy, starting with ***Son of a Trickster*** (2017), a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a CBC Canada Reads contender. The sequel ***Trickster Drift*** (2018) won the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize for Fiction. The third volume, ***Return of the Trickster***, was called “a gift” by the *Vancouver Sun* and “funny, tender, and emotionally true” by the *Toronto Star*. But it is her first novel, ***Monkey Beach*** (2000), winner of the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize and a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, that is a perennial bestseller and is required reading in schools and universities; 100,000 copies a
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