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The Removed: A Novel av Brandon Hobson
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The Removed: A Novel (utgåvan 2021)

av Brandon Hobson (Författare)

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"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is fullâ??in equal measureâ??of melancholy and love."

â??Tommy Orange, author of There There

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Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long agoâ??from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson

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 approachingâ??an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memoryâ??Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep Ernest's mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despiteâ??or perhaps because ofâ??his ties to tragedy in her lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt, Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo.

Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of traumaâ??a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.

"The Removed is a marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of piercingly real characters and an apparently effortless swing into the dire dreamlife, Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and solace. You won't forget it." â??Jonathan Lethem, author of The… (mer)

Medlem:jeannasser
Titel:The Removed: A Novel
Författare:Brandon Hobson (Författare)
Info:Ecco (2021), 288 pages
Samlingar:2021 Popsugar Challenge
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Taggar:#16 indigenous author

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ETA: This book and these characters continue to do a slow burn through my consciousness, and I'm going to take a guess that it's not one of those books I'll have trouble remembering anything about a few years down the road. Hobson's interest in the closeness and intermingling of the physical and supernatural worlds and in the history and continuing effects of Cherokee/Native trauma are pretty good hooks for me.

The Removed is an exercise in applying Cherokee myth and history to the struggles of a fictional contemporary Cherokee family. It identifies a people's stories and ancestors as key strengths in dealing with the harm that has been done and continues to be done to them. The Cherokee context makes it interesting and unique even as it bears a startling resemblance to another book I recently read, [b:Sharks in the Time of Saviors|45892255|Sharks in the Time of Saviors|Kawai Strong Washburn|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1567550978l/45892255._SY75_.jpg|70730151], in its very similar structure of a native family being at the heart of it, the same rotating first-person storytelling, even the same affliction of the father character in his older age and his cure through reconnecting with native culture and ancestors.

Ray-Ray is dead at the outset of the novel, a Cherokee teen killed in an unjust police shooting fifteen years earlier. But he may not be gone. Owls and hawks are everywhere in the novel, and in Cherokee myth they can embody ancestors keeping watch and giving warnings to those alive. Is Ray-Ray a guardian raptor? Many Native American cultures believed in reincarnation, and a fifteen year old Cherokee boy, Wyatt, stays as a temporary foster child with the parental characters. Wyatt's personality and characteristics strongly recall Ray-Ray. Is he Ray-Ray reincarnated?

Edgar, his younger brother, has become a drug addict in a neighboring state. His addiction is symbolized through another bird, a red fowl, which he is given and keeps, and which follows him to the Darkening Land after an overdose. The Darkening Land is an in-between place in Cherokee myth, and Edgar has some things to work out before he can move on. Hobson evokes an appropriately creepy Otherworld that is just close enough to ours to be recognizable, filled with rotting buildings, darkness and storms, and constant dust and fog the residents cough out.

There is a sister, Sonja, who has some good bits ("This was the manner of men, it seemed to me, so often unaware of their own aggression") while working out some issues re: hereditary guilt and justice. There is violence in this storyline that reflects the changing nature of violence towards people like the Cherokee - lessened, sure, but still troublesomely present.

Tsala, the ancestor voice, gives the reader many stories and prophecies from Cherokee myth while still, it seems, working to protect and help his people in the present.

The final rotating first-person voice is Maria, the mother, trying to keep her family protected and well and organizing their upcoming reunion on the occasion of Ray-Ray's death and Cherokee National Day. At the concluding bonfire the family and the ancestors come together and all, in a manner, is right.

The similarity of this novel to another I'd recently read and the rotating first person point of view, not my favorite way of writing a novel, work against The Removed for me, while the Cherokee aspect and the new work with old myths of Edgar's storyline work for it. The prose itself is mostly average. ( )
  lelandleslie | Feb 24, 2024 |
2.5 It was okay. ( )
  mmcrawford | Dec 5, 2023 |
A contemporary novel that uses magical realism to tackle healing and foregiveness within the Indigenous people of the United States ( )
  GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
Good book. Very sad but also very moving. ( )
  Anniik | Nov 26, 2022 |
Set mostly in Oklahoma, this book tells the story of the Echota family and their Cherokee ancestors. Teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting fifteen years ago. The family recognizes the anniversary of his death, and they are preparing for the annual bonfire. The storyline focuses on Ray-Ray’s mother, Maria, father, Ernest, sister, Sonja, and brother, Edgar. Maria and Sonja experience repercussions from their grief, and their stories take place in the real world. Ernest suffers from Alzheimer’s. Edgar is an addict. He takes drugs and finds himself in the Darkening World, a surreal world where he experiences bizarre events. Tsala is the voice of a long-dead ancestor who tells the story of the Trail of Tears.

It is a story of grief – both past and present. It explores the idea that forgiveness is not required in order to achieve healing. The concept of home is prominent. The Darkening World inserts an element of magical realism. It could be drug-induced or perhaps the character is among the dead. I felt the sister’s story was the weakest link – her motivations are unclear, and I am not sure she added much.

The author leaves the ending up to the reader to connect the stories to come up with an explanation. The reader’s reaction will likely depend on how effectively a satisfying conclusion can be conjured. I came up with something that worked for me.
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  Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 |
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"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is fullâ??in equal measureâ??of melancholy and love."

â??Tommy Orange, author of There There

A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM

USA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * TIME * Harper's Bazaar * Buzzfeed * Washington Post * Elle * Parade * San Francisco Chronicle * Good Housekeeping * Vulture * Refinery29 * AARP * Kirkus * PopSugar * Alma * Woman's Day * Chicago Review of Books * The Millions * Biblio Lifestyle * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * LitHub

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long agoâ??from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson

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 approachingâ??an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death, and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memoryâ??Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep Ernest's mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man named Vin, despiteâ??or perhaps because ofâ??his ties to tragedy in her lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt, Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo.

Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of traumaâ??a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.

"The Removed is a marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of piercingly real characters and an apparently effortless swing into the dire dreamlife, Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and solace. You won't forget it." â??Jonathan Lethem, author of The

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