Where the dead sit talking
By: Brandon Hobson
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781616958879; 9781616958886
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Indian foster children; FICTION / Cultural Heritage; Cherokee Indians; Teenagers; FICTION; Coming of Age; FICTION / Coming of Age; Family relationships; Fiction; Cultural Heritage
Description: "A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. 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 unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American backgrounds 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"--