Where The Dead Sit Talking

by Brandon Hobson

3 of 5 stars 1 rating • 0 reviews • 2 shelved
Book cover for Where The Dead Sit Talking
Shelve It

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST

 Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story.

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 mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who also lives with the family.

Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American background 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.
  • ISBN10 164129017X
  • ISBN13 9781641290173
  • Publish Date 4 June 2019 (first published 20 February 2018)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Soho Press