Where the Dead Sit Talking, Brandon Hobson
Where the Dead Sit Talking, Brandon Hobson
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Where the Dead Sit Talking

Author: Brandon Hobson

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2018

Synopsis

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.

About Brandon Hobson

Brandon Hobson is the author of Where the Dead Sit Talking, which will be published in hardcover by Soho Press in 2018. He is also the author of Desolation of Avenues Untold, Deep Ellum, and The Levitationist. He has won a Pushcart Prize, and his stories and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, NOON, the Paris Review Daily, the Believer, Post Road, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Cherokee Nation Tribe.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lark

I am so very pleased that this beautifully crafted and empathetic novel has made the short list for the National Book Award! This novel is simply told, but it isn't a simple story on any level. It's a devastating chronicle of a young person growing up in desperate circumstances. It's an indictment of......more

Goodreads review by Roxane

Very atmospheric. The protagonist is interesting and dark and at times perplexing. There is a lot to admire here but overall the narrative feels too tightly controlled, too unrelenting. Well worth checking out.......more

Goodreads review by Meike

Shortlisted for (and hopefully winning) the National Book Award 2018 This coming-of-age novel draws its power and intensity from the perfect portrayal of its protagonist Sequoyah, a 15-year-old Cherokee teen. When his mother is jailed for drug charges, he ends up in foster care and - as we learn on......more

Goodreads review by Rene

Holy moly this is good. I loved this book not just as a writer—the lyricism is profound, the prose both eerie and elegant—but as a longtime foster parent and survivor of childhood trauma myself. It is so rare to find books that capture the truth of foster care. Hobson doesn't turns foster teens into......more

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