{"product_id":"the-removed-9780062997548","title":"The Removed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love.\" --Tommy Orange, author of \u003cem\u003eThere There\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eUSA 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 * LitHub \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Alzheimer's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the family's annual bonfire approaching--an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memory--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 Ernest's mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despite--or perhaps because of--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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, \u003cem\u003eThe Removed\u003c\/em\u003e seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma--a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Removed\u003c\/em\u003e 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 won't forget it.\" --Jonathan Lethem, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Feral Detective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHobson, Brandon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrandon Hobson \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eWhere the Dead Sit Talking\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and winner of the Reading the West Book Award. His other books include \u003cem\u003eDesolation of Avenues Untold\u003c\/em\u003e and the novella \u003cem\u003eDeep Ellum\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology, \u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eParis Review Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNOON\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/em\u003e, among other places. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University and teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Hobson is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50677293580562,"sku":"9780062997548","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff57aa11-a65c-43ce-b34f-53132224c2dd.jpg?v=1733892367","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-removed-9780062997548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}