The Removed – Brandon Hobson Free Audiobook

Written by Brandon Hobson
Read by Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Studi, Katie Rich, Christopher Salazar
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: The Removed
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Brandon Hobson
Narrator: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Studi, Katie Rich, Christopher Salazar
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: HarperAudio
ISBN: 9780062997579
Subjects: Fiction, Literature

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 6
Total Size: 195 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s
reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for
the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal
measure—of melancholy and love.”—Tommy Orange, author of There There
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Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured
family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago—from
National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson
In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a
police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private
grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset
of Alzheimer’s in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja,
leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying
romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning
to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation.
With the family’s annual bonfire approaching—an occasion marking both
the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray’s death, and a rare moment
in which they openly talk about his memory—Maria attempts to call the
family together from their physical and emotional distances once more.
But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring
of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Maria and
Ernest take in a foster child who seems to almost miraculously keep
Ernest’s mental fog at bay. Sonja becomes dangerously fixated on a man
named Vin, despite—or perhaps because of—his ties to tragedy in her
lifetime and lifetimes before. And in the wake of a suicide attempt,
Edgar finds himself in the mysterious Darkening Land: a place between
the living and the dead, where old atrocities echo.
Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the
real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma—a
meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a
personal and ancestral level.
“The Removed is a marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of
piercingly real characters and an apparently effortless swing into the
dire dreamlife, Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and
solace. You won’t forget it.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of The Feral
Detective