“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 may be set in the past, however, the same cycles exist today, showing that we have not yet learned the necessary lessons to interrupt the trauma.” The novel holds a difficult dialogue on intergenerational trauma, the effects of separating children from their Nations, and the perilous outcomes if we do not make urgent changes to the systems forcing American Indians to assimilate and disconnect. “A dark, twisting, emotional novel about a teenage Cherokee boy dislocated in the foster care system. “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. “Set in rural Oklahoma in the 1980s, Hobson's tale reverberates with the hope of connection as it explores Native displacement and loss.” Longlisted for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary PrizeĢ018 Reading the West Book Award Winner for FictionĢ019 In the Margins Book Award Top Fiction Novel Longlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award From Adam's Picksįinalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction I am far different from Sequoyah, but left this book truly understanding him like a long lost friend. Reading this tragic coming-of-age set in 1989 from the safety of my 2018 couch, I felt the insecurities and small successes his characters did. His writing tackles such heavy topics - prison, the foster system, gambling, death - and wrapped me up in the world I had no business connecting with. The rage and the trauma experienced in this book feels so urgent thanks to the gripping and atmospheric writing from Hobson.
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