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About the author

Born in british columbia.

The genre she writes are gothic fiction and speculative fiction.

She wrote monkey beach traplines and blood sports.

She now lives on kitamaat village on haisla territory.

She has won 2 awards.

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Throughout the novel Lisa is recalling and reflecting upon her childhood and memories. Along with those memories there are different conflicts that develop. There are many small conflicts along the way that Lisa faces including the death of her closest Uncle Mike.

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Monkey Beach shoows social relevance by speaking on chronic drinking and drug abuse. and characters who have endured residential schools. and speak of poverty.

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Eden Robinson develops the theme of loss of native culture through the struggles Lisamarie faces with her spiritual gifts because of residential schools on Haisla culture. This is evident through her family seeing her gifts as an illness. Her reluctance to share for fear of being stigmatized.

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Monkey Beach is a supernatural mystery novel written by the Indigenous Canadian author Eden Robinson.

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“I wish the dead would just come out and say what they mean instead of being so passive-aggressive about the whole thing.”

“She’s got to know about these things.”

"Grease is a delicacy that you have to grow up eating to love.”