Our peer-led book club observes Native American Heritage Month with a notable work of fiction. In November we will discuss "Where the Dead Sit Talking," by Brandon Hobson.
Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, this selection is a startling, authentically voiced and lyrically written Native American coming-of-age story.
With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who also lives with the family.
Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American background and tumultuous paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah’s feelings toward Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both. (from GoodReads)
Newcomers are always welcome!
Wednesday, Nov. 4
7:30 - 9 p.m.
Live via Zoom
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