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With attractive originality and detail, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted writer of the typical Monkey Beach and winner of the Freelance writers' Trust Engel/Findley Prize, blends humor with heartbreak in this engaging coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous values, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otter.... The exciting first novel in her Trickster trilogy. Everyone understands a guy like Jared: the burnout child in senior high school who markets weed cookies and has a terrifying mommy who's often thrown away and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared will smoke and drink too much, and he will make the best cookies in town, and his mommy is chaos, but he's also a youngster who comes with an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to view over people more than double his age group, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, aside from his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he phone calls her Baby) - and now she's dead. Jared can't count on his mom to stay sober and stick around to care for him. He can't rely on his daddy to pay the bills and support his new partner and step-daughter. Jared is merely 16 but feels like he is the one who must stabilize his family's life, even consider his elderly neighborhood friends. But he challenges to keep every thing afloat...and sometimes he blacks out. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother hasn't liked him, why she says he's the kid of any trickster, that he isn't individual. Actually, ravens talk with him - even when he's not stoned. You imagine you know Jared, but you don't.
