Overview
āA haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a familyās reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this familyās way home is fullāin equal measureāof melancholy and love.ā
āTommy Orange, author of There There
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Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long agoāfrom National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson
In 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 Alzheimerās 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 familyās annual bonfire approachingāan occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Rayās death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memoryāMaria 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 Ernestās mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despiteāor perhaps because ofāhis 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 RemovedĀ seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of traumaāa meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.
āThe RemovedĀ 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 wonāt forget it.āĀ āJonathan Lethem, author of The Feral Detective
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