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Laughing with the Trickster
Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions | Tomson Highway
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Brilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the worlds most treasured Indigenous creators. Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have a blast and to laugh ourselves silly. Celebrated author and playwright Tomson Highway brings his signature irreverence to an exploration of five themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death. A comparative analysis of Christian, classical, and Cree mythologies reveals their contributions to Western thought, life, and cultureand how North American Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems. Highway also offers generous personal anecdotes, including accounts of his beloved accordion-playing, caribou-hunting father, and plentiful Trickster stories as curatives for the all-out unhappiness caused by todays patriarchal, colonial systems. Laugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward.
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Casey and I are back together for a teeny, tiny bit! He helped me finish LAUGHING WITH THE TRICKSTER over breakfast. It was my first Tomson Highway (yeah, I know; lamentable gap) and it definitely won‘t be my last. He‘s got an interesting perspective indeed.

dabbe C.A.S.E.Y.!!! 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
xicanti @dabbe I missed his face so much! 4mo
dabbe @xicanti #ditto! 🤩😂🤗 4mo
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Today‘s small but mighty book haul. I stuck a terrible Fear Street novel in a Little Free Library this morning and took AFTER MIDNIGHT away with me. LAUGHING WITH THE TRICKSTER and SHE AND HER CAT came from a new-to-me library branch. And THREE DOORS TO DEATH was a lucky find at the new horror bookstore (which also stocks a bit of crime), along with the two stickers. Gotta have skulls and rainbows.