It’s also a hard and visceral entrance into our own reckoning as a society and civic culture with losses we created, injustices we allowed, and family separations we ignored. In her review of The Removed for NPR, critic Marcela Davison Avilés writes, “The story in this book is deeply resonant and profound, and not only because of its exquisite lyricism. They discover and recover identity they hurt, heal, fall in love, leave, and find home in a fractured contemporary society. As his characters navigate familial separations and systemic racism, they find themselves in circumstances both relatable and astonishingly surreal. THROUGHOUT HIS WORK, Brandon Hobson presents stories of Native lives shaped by intergenerational trauma and atrocity and also by cultural continuity and hope.
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