A novel โabout a [Cherokee] familyโs reckoning with loss and injustice...spirited, droll, and as quietly devastating as rain lifting from earth to skyโ (Tommy Orange, New York Timesโbestselling author of There, There).
Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a family fractured by lossโfrom 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 Alzheimerโs 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 familyโs annual bonfire approachingโan occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Rayโs deathโMaria attempts to call the family together once more. But as the reunion draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world.
โRich in Cherokee folkloreโ (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Removed is โa moving meditation on family, home, and ancestral traumaโ (Harperโs Bazaar).
โA marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of piercingly real characters...Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and solace. You wonโt forget it.โ โJonathan Lethem, bestselling author of The Feral Detective
โMultilayered, emotionally radiant...Highly recommended.โ โLibrary Journal, starred review
โMesmerizing.โ โKirkus Reviews, starred review
โHobson is a master storyteller. . . . This will stay long in readersโ minds.โ โPublishers Weekly, starred review
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