![]() ![]() " The latest from Hobson is a smart, dark novel of adolescence, death, and rural secrets set in late-1980s Oklahoma. Where the Dead Sit Talking is an exploration of whether it's possible for a person to heal when all the world sees is a battlefield of scars. ![]() "Imagine a plot hybrid of Dickens and George Saunders. I was very struck by the plot of it-it's very well written, it's very propulsive, it's very readable for literary fiction, and I would recommend it heartily to book clubs." "I was really struck by the intelligence of the book, as well as the significance of the story that he's telling, about what it's like to be a modern Indigenous person in this country, as a Native American, and to be in the foster care system. ![]() Sequoyah's community and experience is one we all need to know, and Hobson delivers the young man's story in a deeply profound narrative." "A powerful testament to one young Native American's will to survive his lonely existence. ![]() " This is a dark story that depicts the loneliness and pain of unwanted children and the foster care system where they end up. this novel breathes with a dark, pulsing life of its own." "A strange and powerful Native American Bildungsroman. Longlisted for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction ![]()
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