The RemovedAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 28 October 2021
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â?oA haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a familyâ?Ts reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this familyâ?Ts way home is fullâ?"in equal measureâ?"of melancholy and love.â?? â?"Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROMUSA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * TIME * Harper's Bazaar * Buzzfeed * Washington Post * Elle * Parade * San Francisco Chronicle * Good Housekeeping * Vulture * Refinery29 * AARP * Kirkus * PopSugar * Alma * Woman's Day * Chicago Review of Books * The Millions * Biblio Lifestyle * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * LitHubA Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long agoâ?"from National Book Award finalist Brandon HobsonIn the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimerâ?Ts in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation. With the familyâ?Ts annual bonfire approachingâ?"an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Rayâ?Ts death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memoryâ?"Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep Ernestâ?Ts mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despiteâ?"or perhaps because ofâ?"his ties to tragedy in her lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt, Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo. Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The RemovedA seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of traumaâ?"a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level. â?oThe RemovedA is a marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of piercingly real characters and an apparently effortless swing into the dire dreamlife, Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and solace. You wonâ?Tt forget it.â??A â?"Jonathan Lethem, author of The Feral Detective
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