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Where the dead sit talking / Brandon Hobson.

Hobson, Brandon, (author.).

Summary:

"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American backgrounds and tumultuous paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah's feelings toward Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616958879
  • ISBN: 1616958871
  • Physical Description: 273 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Press, [2018]
Subject: Cherokee Indians > Fiction.
Indian foster children > Fiction.
Teenagers > Family relationships > Fiction.
Oklahoma > Fiction.
FICTION > Coming of Age.
FICTION > Cultural Heritage.
FICTION / Cultural Heritage.
FICTION / Coming of Age.
Cherokee Indians.
Indian foster children.
Teenagers > Family relationships.
Oklahoma.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

Available copies

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library.

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Burlington Public Library F HOBSON 39851001376095 Adult Fiction Copy hold Available -

Brandon Hobson is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and his writing has appeared in such places as ConjunctionsNOON, The Paris Review Daily, and The Believer. He is the author of Desolation of Avenues UntoldDeep Ellum, and The Levitationist. Beginning Fall 2019 he will be an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at New Mexico State University. He is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.


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