Celebrated 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. (From House of Anansi Press)

Laughing with the Trickster will be available Sept. 27, 2022.

Highway is a novelist, children's author, playwright and musician. He is a member of the Barren Lands First Nation. His work includes Canadian theatre classics The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen and children's novels Caribou Song, Dragon Fly Kites and Fox on the Ice. His 2021 nonfiction book, Permanent Astonishment, won the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Laughing with the Trickster is the book version of his 2022 CBC Massey Lecture series. The lectures will be broadcast on CBC Radio's IDEAS and CBC Listen in November 2022.