Hobson Brandon
Hobson Brandon - The Removed A Novel - Paperback
Hobson Brandon - The Removed A Novel - Paperback
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Description: 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 US a Today * O the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * TIME * Harper's Bazaar * Buzzfeed * Washington Post * Elle * Parade * San Francisco Chronicle * Good Housekeeping * Vulture * Refinery 29 * AARP * Kirkus * Pop Sugar * Alma * Woman's Day * Chicago Review of Books * The Millions * Biblio Lifestyle * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub 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
Title: The Removed A Novel
Author(s): Hobson Brandon
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062997555
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 10/5/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: 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 US a Today * O the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * TIME * Harper's Bazaar * Buzzfeed * Washington Post * Elle * Parade * San Francisco Chronicle * Good Housekeeping * Vulture * Refinery 29 * AARP * Kirkus * Pop Sugar * Alma * Woman's Day * Chicago Review of Books * The Millions * Biblio Lifestyle * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub 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
Title: The Removed A Novel
Author(s): Hobson Brandon
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062997555
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 10/5/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
