But at least quarantine gave her time to work on a second draft. I didn’t know if I had coronavirus,” she said.
“I was coughing and sneezing and I couldn’t tell if I had a fever or if it was the menopause. It’s not a bad location to have to quarantine in-unless you have a lot of allergies. The Haig-Brown House sits on a two-acre lot surrounded by gardens. Everyone who was in contact with the student had to quarantine for two weeks. That conference turned out to be one of Canada’s first COVID-19 superspreader events.
She was also teaching classes and in mid-February, one of her students had an appointment with their dentist, who had just been at a dental conference in Vancouver. “At that point I’d lived with the characters for so long, I didn’t want anything bad to happen to them.” She breaks into laughter adding, “So nothing did.”Įden returned to Campbell River, B.C., where she was the writer-in-residence at the Haig-Brown House. “Everyone was happy, everyone was healing,” said Eden. It was then that her editor told her the first draft of Return of the Trickster was nice-but kind of boring. In January 2020, the west coast author took a trip to Toronto to promote the second installment, Trickster Drift, which was a finalist for CBC’s Canada Reads. Although the first two books were widely acclaimed, finishing the series wasn’t easy. This month, she releases Return of the Trickster,the third book in her Trickster trilogy, a coming-of-age series about a teenage boy who learns he comes from mystical shapeshifting stock.
I’ve only been in Eden’s orbit a couple of times, but in those moments, we have become friends. It is that great Indigenous laugh you hear from your aunties and your sisters and it makes you crave to be a part of her orbit. If you are at an event, you will hear Eden before you see her with the sounds of that joviality bursting from deep within her. It’s how she disarms everyone around her. She is relaxed and bubbly, laughing at everything and nothing. (Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin)Įden Robinson is very easy to talk with.
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