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Devery Jacobs (DJ): I love
Jonny Appleseed. I love the book. Reading it felt so personal. I kept forgetting that it wasn t a memoir. I know you had mentioned that to me before, that people keep calling you Jonny, as opposed to Josh. It s very much a novel, but it feels so personal. What inspired you to write
Joshua Whitehead (JW): I wrote
Jonny Appleseed because I needed Jonny to be in the world, like an avatar, as a figure for myself and then for the larger communities that I represent: a two-spirit community, queer Indigenous, trans Indigenous, non-binary Indigenous folks, specifically the youth across Turtle Island. I needed this glitter figure to be in the world, to be offering his stories and then also to be representing us. It s very Jonny Appleseed, the folktale figure planting the seeds but it s medicine instead of apples, all over and in people s bellies as they listen to these stories. He s been with me for over a decade now, percolating and collecting things. I
The trailer for
was narrated by Alex McKenna. Sound design was by Alex Redekop.
It was created by Ontario director Celeste Koon with animation and VFX by Abhilasha Dewan and Ian Macdonald.
Koon is a mixed-race writer/director with a wild imagination and a unique and colourful, mixed-media filmmaking style. Celeste fluidly adapts to writing and directing for various ages, genres, and mediums. Her short films have shown in festivals across the globe as well as have been broadcast on Canadian and American television.
Dewan is a Sheridan College animation graduate from New Delhi, India. Abhilasha endeavours to create stories with universal appeal structured around inventive design.
The pandemic pushed much-loved author to drastically change the tone of Return of the Trickster manuscript.
Author of the article: Dana Gee
Publishing date: Mar 05, 2021 • March 5, 2021 • 4 minute read • Haisla and Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson brings big troubles to her beloved characters in the final instalment of the Trickster trilogy Return of the Trickster. Photo by Red Works Photography /PNG
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When Eden Robinson handed in the first draft of Return of the Trickster, the final book in her Trickster trilogy, life was good for her and her characters.