The Removed

Author:   Brandon Hobson ,  Katie Rich ,  Delanna Studi ,  Gary Farmer
Publisher:   HarperCollins
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9781799949336


Publication Date:   02 February 2021
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"""A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love."" --Tommy Orange, author of There There A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM USA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * Harper's Bazaar * Buzzfeed * Washington Post * Elle * Parade * San Francisco Chronicle * Good Housekeeping * Vulture * Refinery29 * AARP * Kirkus * PopSugar * Alma * Woman's Day * Chicago Review of Books * The Millions * Biblio Lifestyle * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * LitHub Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation. With the family's annual bonfire approaching--an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memory--Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep Ernest's mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despite--or perhaps because of--his ties to tragedy in her lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt, Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo. Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma--a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level. ""The Removed is a marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of piercingly real characters and an apparently effortless swing into the dire dreamlife, Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and solace. You won't forget it."" --Jonathan Lethem, author of The Feral Detective"

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Author:   Brandon Hobson ,  Katie Rich ,  Delanna Studi ,  Gary Farmer
Publisher:   HarperCollins
Imprint:   HarperCollins
ISBN:  

9781799949336


ISBN 10:   1799949338
Publication Date:   02 February 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release.

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"""A moving meditation on family, home, and ancestral trauma."" -- ""Harper's Bazaar"" ""Rich in Cherokee folklore."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same...The Removed is spirited, droll, and as quietly devastating as rain lifting from earth to sky."" -- ""Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author"" ""Mesmerizing...Spare, strange, bird-haunted, and mediated by grief, the novel defies its own bleakness as its calls forth a delicate and monumental endurance."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Multilayered, emotionally radiant...Highly recommended."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" ""Hobson is a master storyteller and illustrates in gently poetic prose how for many Native Americans the line between this world and the next isn't so sharp. This will stay long in readers' minds."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"""


Hobson is a master storyteller and illustrates in gently poetic prose how for many Native Americans the line between this world and the next isn't so sharp. This will stay long in readers' minds. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)


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"Brandon Hobson is the author of the novel Where the Dead Sit Talking, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and winner of the Reading the West Book Award. His other books include Desolation of Avenues Untold and the novella Deep Ellum. His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology, The Believer, the Paris Review, Conjunctions, NOON, and McSweeney's, among other places. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University and teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Hobson is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. Delanna Studi is an actress whose roles have included DreamKeeper, Edge of America, and Shameless. she is Native American, born in Oklahoma, and is the niece of the multiaward-winning actor Wes Studi. She was elected chairwoman of the President's National Task Force for American Indians of the Screen Actors Guild. In 2007, she performed her one-woman show entitled ""What's an Indian Woman to Do?"" in Los Angeles to rave reviews from LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times. Gary Farmer is a First Nations actor from Canada. Coming soon..."

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