Where the Dead Sit Talking
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- 95,00 kr
Publisher Description
2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST
Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story.
With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who also lives with the family.
Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American background and tumultuous paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah’s feelings toward Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Brandon Hobson’s novel is far from your average coming-of-age story. Where the Dead Sit Talking follows 15-year-old Cherokee boy Sequoyah, who’s placed in a foster home in a small Oklahoma town in the ’80s. Physically and emotionally scarred, Sequoyah has a jaundiced view of the system and his aloof foster parents. His disturbing preoccupations with death and violence give his narration an unnerving, edge-of-sanity unreliability. That disquiet only increases when he meets fellow foster child Rosemary, whose emotional damage matches his own. Hobson tells the duo’s story with a lived-in authenticity that’s darkly poetic and hard to shake.
