Fri, Feb 26
|Zoom
Brandon Hobson, The Removed
PLEASE NOTE: NEW START TIME! In conversation with award-winning author, Kelli Jo Ford (Crooked Hallelujah). From National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson comes a novel steeped in Cherokee myths and history, about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago.
Date, Time & Location
Feb 26, 2021, 7:00 PM MST
Zoom
About the Event
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The Removed can be purchased from CW here
Crooked Hallelujah can be purchased from CW here
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.…