
The story resumes just hours after the end of Trickster Drift and follows Jared as he finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war. Return of the Trickster continues and concludes the series surrounding teenager Jared Martin, the Trickster. “It’s gruesome and it still reflects a lot of that headspace, but it’s toned down a lot.”

“The third draft is more of the novel that’s out there now,” Robinson says. It was then that the her highly anticipated new book truly began taking shape. She dove into the next draft after her quarantine ended.

(She had been in contact with someone who had potentially been exposed to the novel coronavirus.) In that version of her highly anticipated novel, “everybody died.” EDEN ROBINSON’S COVID-19 isolation and her love of horror almost led to the gory deaths of all the main characters in the third and final installment of her Trickster trilogy.ĭuring an interview with Stir, the Haisla and Heiltsuk author from Kitamaat Village explains that she wrote the second draft of Return of the Trickster (Penguin Randomhouse)-which follows 2017’s Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift from 2018-amid the loneliness and uncertainty of self-isolation.
