![]() The reader follows the fraught actions of 19-year-old Lisamarie, who learns of her brother’s disappearance and suspected drowning while working away on a fishing boat. Robinson set Monkey Beach in 1989 in her own hometown of Kitamaat Village, BC. ![]() What cumulates in this traditionally perceived coming-of-age narrative is an understanding of a young female protagonist’s reclamation of a way of being lost to immense colonial folds. Robinson guides her readers on this journey while simultaneously withholding the sacred power of knowing. ![]() ![]() The focus of reviewing Eden Robinson’s 2000 debut novel, Monkey Beach, is to acknowledge and highlight the power of activating textual layers of magic realism in providing a pathway of shamanism and spiritual components of the Haisla Nation throughout the book. Content warning: Death, murder, addiction and drug use, racism, sexual violence, intergenerational trauma ![]()
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