Son of a Trickster

In Son of a Trickster, Eden Robinson follows Jared Martin, an Indigenous teenager navigating family instability, addiction, poverty, and violence in the Haisla community of Kitamaat Village, British Columbia. As Jared struggles to care for his dysfunctional parents, he begins encountering supernatural forces rooted in Indigenous trickster traditions. Blending gritty realism with dark humour and the fantastical, Robinson explores the intergenerational impacts of colonialism, trauma, and substance abuse alongside the resilience of Indigenous community and cultural traditions. Both unsettling and compassionate, Son of a Trickster is a coming-of-age story about resilience, identity, and the complicated inheritance of family and culture.