&ldquo\;Brandon Hobson has given us a haun
ted work\, full of voices old and new. It is about a family&rsquo\;s recko
ning with loss and injustice\, and it is about a people trying for the sam
e. The journey of this family&rsquo\;s way home is full&mdash\;in equal me
asure&mdash\;of melancholy and love. \;The Removed \;is spirited\,
droll\, and as quietly devastating as rain lifting from earth to sky.&rdq
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&mdash\;Tommy Orange\, author of \;There There
In the f
ifteen years since their teenage son\, Ray-Ray\, was killed in a police sh
ooting\, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. \;With
the family&rsquo\;s annual bonfire approaching&mdash\;an occasion marking
both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray&rsquo\;s death\, and a rar
e moment in which they openly talk about his memory&mdash\;The mother\, Ma
ria\, attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotion
al distances once more.
Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore\, \;The Removed \;seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate t he deep reverberations of trauma&mdash\;a meditation on family\, grief\, h ome\, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.
\nPreorder \;The Removed \;(February 2021) from \;Books&nbs p\;with a Past. \;
\nBrandon Hobson \;is the author of the n ovel \;Where the Dead Sit Talking\, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and winner of the Reading the West Book Aw ard. His other books include \;Desolation of Avenues Untold \;and the novella \;Deep Ellum. His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology\, \;The Believer\, the \;Paris Review Daily\, \;Conj unctions\, \;NOON\, and \;McSweeney&rsquo\;s\, among other places. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State Univ ersity and teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Hobson is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklaho ma.
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