The removed : a novel / 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." --Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062997548
- Physical Description: 272 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021.
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Subject: | Families > Oklahoma > Fiction. Death > Fiction. Cherokee peoples > Fiction. Indigenous peoples > Oklahoma > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Solitude > Fiction. Alzheimer's disease > Fiction. Drug abuse > Fiction. Cherokee mythology > Fiction. Oklahoma > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Grand Forks | FIC HOB (Text) | 35142002714342 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Creston Public Library | FIC HOB (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100079493 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fort St. John Public Library | AF HOB (Text) | 35211000546103 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Gibsons Public Library | FIC HOBS (Text) | 30886001088349 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Invermere Public Library | FIC HOB (Text) | IPL058016 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Kitimat Public Library | Hob (Text) | 32665002264663 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Quesnel Branch | HOB (Text) | 33923006318947 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Salmo Public Library | FIC HOB (Text) | 35163000200738 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
Sechelt Public Library | F HOBS (Text) | 33260100076992 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Terrace Public Library | HOB (Text) | 35151001116722 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |