Today our guest is Haisla/​Heiltsuk author Eden Robin­son. We dis­cuss the grow­ing buzz around her new book, the first in a tril­o­gy: ‑Son of A Trick­ster-. Eden’s new nov­el fol­lows the tumul­tuous ado­les­cent years of a young man from Kiti­mat named Jared. His sto­ry, although not an entire­ly uncom­mon one for a First Nations’ youth in Cana­da, is par­tic­u­lar­ly unique because he may or may not be the prod­uct of a teenage love affair between Weeg’it the Trick­ster and a Hais­la witch at an all-Native baske­ball tour­na­ment in the 80s. Jared is a redeemable char­ac­ter in an irre­deemable world, a uni­verse at the whims of mag­ic, trick­ery, and the every­day social prob­lems of being First Nations in Cana­da today. Eden is get­ting a ton of praise for ‑Son of A Trick­ster- where she has already been short­list­ed for Canada’s top lit­er­ary prize, among oth­er accolades.