![]() ![]() Melissa Michal: What was the origin of the novel?īrandon Hobson: It started with thinking about my previous work experience in social work. This may be set in the past, but the same cycles exist today, showing that we have not yet learned the necessary lessons to interrupt the trauma. The novel holds a difficult dialogue on intergenerational trauma, the effects of separating children from their Nations, and the perilous outcomes if we do not make urgent changes to the systems forcing American Indians to assimilate and disconnect. Like him, Rosemary is yet another American Indian child in the foster care system, trying to connect to a home. And then he is placed with the Troutts who have two other foster children, Rosemary and George. ![]() ![]() Sequoyah has moved around to many homes, sometimes living in shelters while waiting in the in-between, not ever fitting in where he is placed. Where the Dead Sit Talking is a dark, twisting, emotional novel about a teenage Cherokee boy dislocated in the foster care system. ![]()
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