The pain she experienced found its way into the content of Trickster Drift, which has just been published. “And I’m so grateful that I have the family that I have.” Through the worst of it, she had cousins come over in the morning to help her get dressed and with meals. “I have never appreciated my mobility more,” she says. It made writing difficult – certainly anything that required a sustained focus was impossible – and she was just finishing the first draft of Trickster Drift, the second book in her Trickster trilogy. By October, when her father died, both of her shoulders were frozen and her knees had begun to lock. It began as an intense weakness in her inner thigh muscles and advanced quickly and aggressively – typical with PMR, she explains. In the midst of all this, beginning in May, 2017, Robinson was struck with polymyalgia rheumatica, an inflammatory disorder. “Everyone called her Granny Annie,” Robinson says. Then this spring, her grandmother, Alice Annie Hunt, died. Her father died last October Robinson had been taking care of him and they had been working on a children’s book together. The award-winning Haisla and Heiltsuk author turned 50 in January – there was a week of parties, which was good – but she has been struggling with health issues and loss. It has not been the best of years for Eden Robinson. Eden Robinson poses for a photo at Cafe Calabria in Vancouver, May 11, 2018.
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