He could see all the little muscles working in her face as she inhaled. She wore her favourite ripped Metallica T-shirt over jeans and flip-flops. She was frying a pan of meatballs, her cigarette tucked into the corner of her mouth. The kitchen windows were all open and moths fluttered against the screens. “In here,” she said, her voice coming from the kitchen. Not visiting his mom before he took off for Vancouver would save him a lot of grief, but it would be such a douche move. Which didn’t mean it was safe to go in, but Jared went up the steps and opened the front door. Or they were hard-core smokers who wanted to be able to light up in their rooms and found a kindred spirit in his mom, a dedicated two-packer who hated being forced outside.
Most of her tenants were sub-subcontractors, in Kitimat for a few weeks and unwilling to shell out for a pricey furnished one-bedroom or a motel room. His mom rented out two of the rooms and the basement to pay the bills. The large porch was littered with work gear. The house he’d grown up in was two storeys high, white with green trim. Jared Martin flipped up his hood as he turned the corner onto his street. The clouds finally broke into a sullen drizzle after a muggy, overcast day. When David finally catches up with him, Jared can't ignore his true nature any longer. He also still hears his father in his head, and other voices too.
He sees ghosts, he sees the monster moving underneath his Aunt Georgina's skin, he sees the creature that comes out of his bedroom wall and creepily wants to suck his toes. Though she smothers him with hugs, Mave is blind to the real dangers that lurk around them-the spirits and supernatural activity that fill her apartment.Īs the son of a Trickster, Jared is a magnet for magic, whether he hates it or not. He figures that in order to be safe from both magic, addiction and David, he's got to get his grades up, find a job that doesn't involve selling weed cookies, and learn how to live with his Aunt Mave, who has been estranged from the family ever since she tried to "rescue" him as a baby from his mother. And Maggie, a witch as well as a badass, can't protect him like she used to because he's moved from Kitimat to Vancouver for school. He's being stalked by David, his mom's ex-a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. But his troubles are not over: the temptation to slip is constant (thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom, Maggie). Jared Martin, seventeen, has quit drugs and drinking. Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, a national bestseller and the second book in Eden Robinson's captivating Trickster trilogy.
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