Return of the Trickster: Eden Robinson

Eden Robinson and Wab Kinew 

Return of the Trickster: Eden Robinson

Eden Robinson and Wab Kinew 

5:00pm

Thursday, October 21

Award-winning author and smoked salmon aficionado Eden Robinson presents the highly anticipated final installment of the Trickster trilogy, Return of the Trickster. Robinson brings us back into the explosive life of Jared Martin (brought to life recently in a television series adaptation on CBC), who is juggling his literal witch of a mother with Indigenous teen life and the realization that he is also a Trickster. Tune in as Robinson unleashes a universe of witches, ogresses, flesh-eating coy-wolves and innocent Tricksters, in a wild conversation of humour and insight.

Interviewer: Wab Kinew

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Award-winning author and smoked salmon aficionado Eden Robinson presents the highly anticipated final installment of the Trickster trilogy, Return of the Trickster. Robinson brings us back into the explosive life of Jared Martin (brought to life recently in a television series adaptation on CBC), who is juggling his literal witch of a mother with Indigenous teen life and the realization that he is also a Trickster. Tune in as Robinson unleashes a universe of witches, ogresses, flesh-eating coy-wolves and innocent Tricksters, in a wild conversation of humour and insight.

Interviewer: Wab Kinew

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Conversation

Featured Authors

Eden Robinson
Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk novelist and the author of a collection of novellas called Traplines, which won the Winifred Holtby Prize in the UK. Eden’s book, Monkey Beach, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Trickster Drift, the second book in the Trickster Trilogy, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Return of the Trickster, the final book in the trilogy, was a national bestseller. In 2017, Eden was awarded the Writers' Trust Fellowship. She lives in Kitamaat Village, BC.

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Wab Kinew 
Wab Kinew is the bestselling, award-winning author of the picture book Go Show the World and the memoir The Reason You Walk. A member of the Midewin and an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, he is also a former journalist, hip-hop artist, and television host. Kinew, who is leader of the provincial NDP in Manitoba, lives in Winnipeg with his family. This fall he will publish his first YA novel, Walking in Two Worlds.

Read more about Wab Kinew 

5:00pm

Thursday, October 21

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