![]() ![]() The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer’s in her husband, Ernest. 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. Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, The Removed is about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago. Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a startling, authentically voiced and lyrically written Native American coming-of-age story. ![]() ![]() He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. ![]() Hobson is an assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University and also teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. In 2022, Brandon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has won a Pushcart Prize, and his fiction has appeared in such places as McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, NOON, and elsewhere. Brandon Hobson is the author The Removed, as well as the novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, winner of the Reading the West Award, and longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. ![]()
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