內容簡介
2018年美國國家圖書獎決選名單入圍
母親因吸毒和持有毒品入獄服刑，切諾基族的印地安17歲少年賽闊亞被社會局安置在楚特家，過去曾遭受母親的虐待，在身體與心靈都留下深深的傷痕，賽闊亞變得十分安靜與壓抑，他只願意用筆談溝通，有時會在半夜起來夢遊。他將所有的情緒都放在心中，直到他遇見另一個同樣寄宿在楚特家的女孩，蘿絲瑪莉。
蘿絲瑪莉和賽闊亞有同樣的出身背景，他來自切諾基族，蘿絲瑪莉則是基奧瓦族，兩人各自有一段混亂且不堪回首的過去，賽闊亞很快地與蘿絲瑪莉互有好感，但賽闊亞對她有更深的連結，但這樣的關係卻增添兩人之間的不穩定，過去的傷疤與痛苦將再次重塑他們的人生…
2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST
Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story.
With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. 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.
目錄介紹
“Set in rural Oklahoma in the 1980s, Hobson's tale reverberates with the hope of connection as it explores Native displacement and loss.”
—The New York Times
“An extraordinary book.”
—NPR's Code Switch
“A strange and powerful Native American Bildungsroman . . . this novel breathes with a dark, pulsing life of its own.”
—The Tulsa Voice
“Soulful.”
—Dallas Morning News
“This is a dark story that depicts the loneliness and pain of unwanted children and the foster care system where they end up . . . authentic and humane.”
—The Oklahoman
“The latest from Hobson is a smart, dark novel of adolescence, death, and rural secrets set in late-1980s Oklahoma. Hobson’s narrative control is stunning, carrying the reader through scenes and timelines with verbal grace and sparse detail. Far more than a mere coming-of-age story, this is a remarkable and moving novel.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“A masterly tale of life and death, hopes and fears, secrets and lies.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
作者介紹
Brandon Hobson is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and his writing has appeared in such places as Conjunctions, NOON, The Paris Review Daily, and The Believer. He is the author of Desolation of Avenues Untold, Deep Ellum, and The Levitationist. Beginning Fall 2019 he will be an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at New Mexico State University. He is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.
