| Where the Dead Sit Talking Contributor(s): Hobson, Brandon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1616958871 ISBN-13: 9781616958879 Publisher: Soho Press OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2017029032 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (1.10 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Demographic Orientation - Small Town |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |