Their menus were truly the “original local

He describes his childhood there

and nurses working in modern Native ways

God's Red Son is one of the most powerful accounts of Native American modernity you'll ever read

The summer before going into high school

Where the Dead Sit Talking children Their menus were truly the2018 National Book Award Fiction Finalist. Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming of age story. 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 mother's years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep