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Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Bildungsromans Novels Fiction Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Brandon Hobson |
ISBN: | 9781616958879 1616958871 9781641290173 164129017X |
OCLC Number: | 987992479 |
Awards: | Short-listed for National Book Award 2019 |
Description: | 273 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Brandon Hobson. |
Abstract:
"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. 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 unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American backgrounds 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"--
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