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03389aam a22004458i 4500 001 F9300E1C017B11ECA67BC50527ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210820010027 007 tb 008 210318t20212021meu ed 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021012768 020 $a 143288946X 020 $a 9781432889463 035 $a (OCoLC)1243036987 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JPL $d FM0 $d OCLCO $d IUK $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PS3608.O248 $b R46 2021b 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Hobson, Brandon, $e author. 245 14 $a The removed / $c Brandon Hobson. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2021. 300 $a 353 pages (large print) ; $c 22 cm 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 520 $a "Teeped 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 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 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. With 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. Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed 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. "The Removed 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 The Feral Detective"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Cherokee Indians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sons $x Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Death $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Oklahoma $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 945 $a lpt 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220630010659.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20220201010830.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20211130010751.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210820011246.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9300E1C017B11ECA67BC50527ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search