Feb
10
12:30am
Brandon Hobson on The Removed with Santee Frazier
By Kweli Journal
“Brandon Hobson has given us 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 full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love. The Removed is spirited, droll, and as quietly devastating as rain lifting from earth to sky.” -- Tommy Orange, author of There There
“Astonishing. This moving and affecting novel tells the story of a Native family in crisis, each person dealing with the aftereffects of grief and trauma following the murder of a beloved son. But this is a book of hope and healing, a remarkable tale of resilience in the face of unimaginable pain. Written with lyrical and evocative prose and a deep reverence for Cherokee culture and tradition, The Removed is an important contribution to indigenous fiction and American literature.” -- David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of Winter Counts
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Brandon Hobson is the author of the novel, THE REMOVED. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award, Winner of the Reading the West Award, and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His work has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such places as McSweeney's, Conjunctions, NOON, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University and also teaches in the low-res MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Hobson is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.
Santee Frazier is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He received his BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and his MFA from Syracuse University. He has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, The School for Advanced Research, and The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Frazier’s poems have appeared in Ontario Review, American Poet, and Prairie Schooner, among others. The author of Dark Thirty, University of Arizona Press, 2009, Frazier’s second collection of poems Aurum was published by the University of Arizona Press in Fall 2019.
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