A review by hatseflats
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson

5.0

I really didn't know what to expect when I began reading Brandon Hobson's novel. I knew that it was about a 15-year-old Cherokee boy sent to live in a foster home in rural Oklahoma in 1989, but that was about it. The story is told from the first person voice of boy Sequoyah and in such a believable way that at times I felt like I was reading memoir and not fiction. For the most part, the characters are all likeable, and also, to varying degrees, humanly imperfect. There was such fragile human emotion that it made me want to reach through the pages of the book and embrace the characters at time. In brief: I loved this book!