Brandon Hobson Autographing

Saturday, February 24 

1:00pm

NOC Instructor, Brandon Hobson, will be signing his new book Where The Dead Sit Talking this Saturday at 1:00pm.

Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, this novel is a startling, authentically voiced and lyrically written Native American coming-of-age story. 

Hobson was awarded the prestigious Pushcart Prize for a piece published in 2016 called Past the Econolodge, which is an excerpt from his new novel.

Where The Dead Sit Talking has received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and The Library Journal.

Can't attend? Call or email to reserve autographed copies.

 About the book:

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 below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. 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.

About the author: 

Hobson grew up in El Reno, Oklahoma, earned a B.A. in English from Oklahoma City University, an M.A. in English from the University of Central Oklahoma, and a Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from Oklahoma State University. He and his family moved to Ponca City in 2013 when he took a full-time job teaching English, Creative Writing, and Literature at NOC. Brandon and his wife, Kaylynn, have two children, Ian and Holden. He is a member of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. 

Brandon is also in the process of contributing an essay for an anthology the Kirkpatrick Foundation is publishing next fall titled Love Can Be: Essays and Poems About Our Animals, A Literary Collection which will include work by notable writers such as S.E. Hinton , Joy Harjo, Joyce Carol Oates, N. Scott Momaday, and many others.