Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brossura

Hobson, Brandon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 164129017X ISBN 13: 9781641290173

Casa editrice: Soho Press, 2019

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione

Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
NPR's Code Switch Best Books of 2018
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018
Longlisted for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize

Praise for Where the Dead Sit Talking

"An extraordinary book."
--NPR's Code Switch

"A strange and powerful Native American Bildungsroman . . . this novel breathes with a dark, pulsing life of its own."
--The Tulsa Voice

"Soulful."
--Dallas Morning News

" This is a dark story that depicts the loneliness and pain of unwanted children and the foster care system where they end up . . . authentic and humane. "
-- The Oklahoman

"A powerful testament to one young Native American's will to survive his lonely existence. Sequoyah's community and experience is one we all need to know, and Hobson delivers the young man's story in a deeply profound narrative."
--KMUW Wichita Public Radio

"I was really struck by the intelligence of the book, as well as the significance of the story that he's telling, about what it's like to be a modern Indigenous person in this country, as a Native American, and to be in the foster care system. I was very struck by the plot of it--it's very well written, it's very propulsive, it's very readable for literary fiction, and I would recommend it heartily to book clubs."
--Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko

"Imagine a plot hybrid of Dickens and George Saunders ."
--The Brooklyn Rail

"Dreamlike prose . . . Where the Dead Sit Talking is an exploration of whether it's possible for a person to heal when all the world sees is a battlefield of scars. "
-- San Diego CityBeat

" The latest from Hobson is a smart, dark novel of adolescence, death, and rural secrets set in late-1980s Oklahoma. Hobson's narrative control is stunning, carrying the reader through scenes and timelines with verbal grace and sparse detail. Far more than a mere coming-of-age story, this is a remarkable and moving novel ."
-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"A masterly tale of life and death, hopes and fears, secrets and lies."
--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"Hobson's eloquent prose and story line will keep literary and general fiction readers turning pages. Its teen protagonists offer interest for young adults."
--Library Journal

"[A] poignant and disturbing coming-of-age story . . . Hobson presents a painfully visceral drama about the overlooked lives of those struggling on the periphery of mainstream society."
--Booklist

"Hobson's gift to the reader is the hopeful persistence he instills in Sequoyah, despite his challenges with identity and belonging. He is a young man who is clearly scarred but thankfully not defeated."
--Shelf Awareness

"In Where the Dead Sit Talking, Hobson is once again in fine form, delivering a lyrical, somewhat brutal, and very touching coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. At once elegant and straightforward, poetic and cold in a way that approximates noir . . . a beautifully written novel."
--Vol. 1 Brooklyn

"Intriguing . . . Hobson has written here a dark and arresting tale."
--Literary Hub

L'autore

Brandon Hobson is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and his writing has appeared in such places as Conjunctions, NOON, The Paris Review Daily, and The Believer. He is the author of Desolation of Avenues Untold, Deep Ellum, and The Levitationist. Beginning Fall 2019 he will be an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at New Mexico State University. He is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.

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• Editore: Soho Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 164129017X
• ISBN 13: 9781641290173
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288