02189cam a2200361 i 4500 625816470 TxAuBib 20210224120000.0 200908s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020040868 9780062997548 hardcover 0062997548 hardcover (OCoLC)1155167782 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda MJ8 DLC OCLCO TOH OCLCF BDX YDX FHP ILC OCLCO EOS TKL YDX YU6 OCLCO TXAAL TxAuBib MJ8 OCLCO TOH OCLCF BDX YDX FHP ILC OCLCO EOS TKL YDX YU6 OCLCO TXAAL TxAuBib rda Hobson, Brandon. The removed. The removed : a novel / Brandon Hobson. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] 272 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago-from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson"-- Provided by publisher. Quah, Oklahoma. 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-- marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray's death-- each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. -- adapted from jacket. 20210224. Cherokee Indians Fiction. Sons Death Fiction. Families Fiction. Death Fiction. Oklahoma Fiction. Fiction. TXAAL