{"product_id":"laughing-with-the-trickster-tomson-highway-9781487011239","title":"Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrickster 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCelebrated 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 culture--and 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 today's patriarchal, colonial systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaugh with the legendary Tomson Highway as he illuminates a healing, hilarious way forward.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tomson Highway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487011237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487011239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e House of Anansi Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Tomson Highway","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44066023768319,"sku":"9781487011239","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2a47c000-0751-4c75-a221-f8f032c91560.jpg?v=1685404896","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/laughing-with-the-trickster-tomson-highway-9781487011239","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}