The Removed
by Brandon Hobson
"Fifteen years after police killed their son, a Cherokee family gathers — and the spirit world leans in."
In the days before the anniversary bonfire for Ray-Ray, killed by police fifteen years ago, each member of the Echota family drifts between grief and the Darkening Land of Cherokee story — where the dead are not quite done with the living. Mythic, tender and quietly devastating.
Worth knowing
Hobson is a National Book Award finalist; the novel weaves traditional Cherokee stories through a modern family portrait.
