“I’d kill and die for you, Jellybean,” Maggie tells Jared. He regularly helps his elderly neighbours, Mr and Mrs Jaks, who took him in when Maggie was sent for a stint in rehab and anger management for power-nailing her abusive ex-boyfriend David’s arms to the floor. Eye for an eye, bill for a bill” figures into this equation, too.). Optics aside, Jared is fundamentally a sweet, responsible kid who gets the rent and bills paid when his dad blows his disability cheque on Ox圜ontin, or his mother Maggie and her drug-dealing boyfriend, Richie, disappear on “business” (Maggie’s “Biblical sense of justice. Jared funds his bad habits by baking and selling homemade pot cookies to the kids at his Kitimat high school, who show their appreciation by dubbing him “the Cookie Dude.” As in her novels Blood Sport and her Giller Prize-shortlisted Monkey Beach, Robinson’s hero, Jared Martin, is a substance-abusing BC teen from a dysfunctional family of enablers. Most (though not all) of the spewing is drug- and alcohol-induced. Chances are you won’t read a novel in 2017 with more vomiting in it than Eden Robinson’s Son of a Trickster, the first instalment in a planned trilogy by the Haisla/Heiltsuk writer who first rose to prominence in the ’90s with a visceral book of short stories, Traplines.
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