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Josh lives in Kitamaat Village where he is uncle to Frank, Bib, Cheese, Pooch, Ronny, and Karaoke (Adelaine Jones). He and Uncle Mick were best friends and basketball teammates in high school, and he has an on-again, off-again relationship with Aunt Trudy. Like them, Josh went to residential school in his youth and was evidently molested by at least one priest. In turn, he later sexually abuses Karaoke. Josh is a man of inconsistencies and extremes, sometimes very generous with his money, other times penniless. Josh dies at Jimmy’s hands on his fishing boat, Queen of the North, after Jimmy learns that Josh molested and impregnated Karaoke.
Josh Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Josh or refer to Josh. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3: In Search of the Elusive Sasquatch
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“Alberni? Really? There’s a treatment centre where the residential school used to be?” one of the women said to Aunt Trudy.
Another woman laughed, then said, “Hey, how many priests does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”
“How many?”
“Three. One to screw it, one to beat it for being screwed and one to tell the lawyers that no screwing took place.”
“That’s not funny,” Josh said.
“That’s the point,” the woman said.
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Josh Quotes in Monkey Beach
The Monkey Beach quotes below are all either spoken by Josh or refer to Josh. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3: In Search of the Elusive Sasquatch
Quotes
“Alberni? Really? There’s a treatment centre where the residential school used to be?” one of the women said to Aunt Trudy.
Another woman laughed, then said, “Hey, how many priests does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”
“How many?”
“Three. One to screw it, one to beat it for being screwed and one to tell the lawyers that no screwing took place.”
“That’s not funny,” Josh said.
“That’s the point,” the woman said.
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