![]() Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American background 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. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who also lives with the family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care. Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a startling, authentically voiced and lyrically written Native American coming-of-age story. ![]() Best book of 2018: Kirkus, Southern Living, and NPR Code SwitchĢ020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist ![]()
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