Return of the trickster

Summary: All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom's old house in Kitimat, some of the people he loves--the ones who don't see the magic he attracts--just think he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. The truth for Jared is so much worse. He finally knows for sure that he is the only one of his bio dad Wee'git's 535 children who is a Trickster too, a shapeshifter with a free pass to other dimensions. Sarah, his ex, is happy he's a magical being, but everyone else he loves is either pissed with him, or in mortal danger from the dark forces he's accidentally unleashed, or both. The scariest of those dark forces is his Aunt Georgina, a maniacal ogress hungry for his power, who has sent her posse of flesh-eating coy-wolves to track him down. Even though his mother resents like hell that Jared has taken after his dad, she is also determined that no one is going to hurt her son. For Maggie it's simple--Kill or be killed, bucko. Soon Jared is at the centre of an all-out war--a horrifying place to be for the universe's sweetest Trickster, whose first instinct is not mischief and mind games but to make the world a kinder, safer, place.

Record details

ISBN: 9780735273467 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 303 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021
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Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Sloppy dead -- Regret tastes like diet soda -- Yea, though I walk through the valley -- Wee'git -- The Roche limit of love -- In the realm of the wild man -- The darker stars of Heaven -- The death of Philip Martin -- Sarah -- Maggie -- Day drinking with Maggie and Jared -- Get angry -- The shadow of death -- Wee'git -- Hair of the dog -- The self-serve checkout counter does not judge -- Cthulhu, do do do do do do -- Adventures in babysitting -- There's this thing that follows me around -- The bloop -- Double trouble -- Queens of the anthropocene -- Love, and be silent -- Anita -- Qui veut noyer son chien l'accuse de la rage -- Guess who's coming to breakfast -- Maggie -- Oh chispa loca -- You smell so good -- Kilonova -- The general features of a systems collapse -- I am as inexorable as the waves -- Epilogue-ish.