Laughing with the Trickster

Brilliant, jubilant insights intothe glory and anguish oflife from one of the world's 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 playwrightTomson 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 culture-and how North American Indigenous mythologies provide unique, timeless solutions to our modern problems.Highway also offersgenerous personal anecdotes, including accounts of his beloved accordion-playing, caribou-hunting father, and plentifulTrickster stories as curatives for the all-out unhappiness caused by today's patriarchal, colonial systems.

Laugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward.