https://brandonhobson.com/books daily 1.0 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594666436482-5FA3ISP1Q9C4ES57OTV5/Removed_cover.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594665521957-KUHFL5KY35LP8IRHYQ60/image-asset.jpeg Books - THE REMOVED 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 the death of their teenage son, Ray-Ray, 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594699736046-5CR2RKH1F7PSI4QYHJHT/image-asset.jpeg Books - Deep Ellum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594699627045-1NMXDF52ZL9CCH9GABRG/image-asset.jpeg Books - WTDST https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594699777291-NNKNCFRMJ84SIAOA7SN9/image-asset.jpeg Books - Desolation of Avenues Untold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1685043765313-S4O7VXGUQ44334YY5BLO/storyteller-1.jpg Books - The Storyteller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1549134042099-O49WKD53SWJSDXM691RL/Where-the-Dead-Sit-Talking-Jacket-3rd-prtfin-400x600.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1752872293166-SPZXT7IXWQYOHPTE9OR8/image-asset.jpeg Books https://brandonhobson.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2022-12-09 https://brandonhobson.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://brandonhobson.com/home-1 daily 0.75 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1596161960477-W5PTAQ0OGEP6VPLYY2OX/Removed_cover.jpg Home * Named a Best Book of 2021 in Publishers Weekly, Time, Kirkus, Library Journal, Good Housekeeping, Harpers Bazaar * Indie Next Pick, February 2021 * Good Morning America Buzz Pick * Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club pick * Jesmyn Ward’s Literati Book Club August Pick “A mythic, sweeping novel.”—New York Times Book Review “[Hobson’s] carved a striking new benchmark for fiction about Native Americans.”—Los Angeles Times "A soul-stirring saga." — O, the Oprah Magazine https://brandonhobson.com/desolation daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594702462178-EBZ0EOFPG68R2M2K8TPG/desolation.jpg Desolation "Desolation of Avenues Untold is enthralling on multiple levels: as a mystery, as a slapstick comedy, as an investigation of an arcane society, as the story of a shuffling life at the edge of things. I enjoyed it enormously and I can't wait to see what Brandon Hobson comes up with next. He's a marvelous storyteller." -- Owen P. King, author of Double Feature ...falls somewhere between postmodern satire and Bolaño-esque noir." -- The Collagist "...confidently walks the line between a mystery with heavy doses of noir and a surrealist fantasy..." -- Vol. 1 Brooklyn https://brandonhobson.com/wtdst daily 0.75 2022-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594701687115-MY0K9IBITK5014ENTE7X/WTDST.jpg WTDST Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award Finalist for the St Francis College Literary Prize Winner of the Reading the West Book Award Best Book of 2018: Kirkus Reviews, Southern Living, NPR's Code Switch #1 Bestseller on Oklahoma's Bestseller List Longlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize “A remarkable and moving novel.”—Publisher’s Weekly, starred review https://brandonhobson.com/the-removed daily 0.75 2024-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594703421973-2WI1MPPJCYVYX70QFCXV/Removed_cover.jpg The Removed * Named a Best Book of 2021 in Publishers Weekly, Time, Kirkus, Library Journal, Good Housekeeping, Harpers Bazaar * Winner of the Western Heritage Award * Good Morning America Buzz Pick * Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club pick * Jesmyn Ward’s Literati Book Club August Pick * Indie Next Pick, February 2021 * Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award “A mythic, sweeping novel.”—New York Times Book Review “[Hobson’s] carved a striking new benchmark for fiction about Native Americans.”—Los Angeles Times "A soul-stirring saga." — O, the Oprah Magazine https://brandonhobson.com/deepellum daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/1594702314843-7QIE6S2JVAJ7PW3LHLZ5/deep+ellum.jpg DeepEllum “Restrained, dark, and strangely silent, this almost unbearably compelling novel reminds me how blood ties can cut as deeply and painfully as broken glass through the foot. If you've ever had a homecoming laced with sadness and longing, you'll relate to it." -- Ottessa Moshfegh "Hobson establishes a city that is as lively as Twin Peaks..." --Electric Literature https://brandonhobson.com/home daily 0.75 2022-04-14 https://brandonhobson.com/bio-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/f86ef692-22b2-47a3-9b5e-d81266e381c1/BrandonPortrait1.jpg Bio Photo credit: Connor Bock https://brandonhobson.com/storyteller daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/38ef8fa5-60c4-4e4e-a81a-6e393ade1650/storyteller-1.jpg The Storyteller From National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson, a kaleidoscopic middle-grade adventure. * LISTED ON NEW YORK TIMES BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS of 2023 * Starred Kirkus Review * Starred School Library Journal review “Hobson pours elements of Cherokee storytelling into the novel, and also packs it with humor, and musical and literary references.” — The New York Times https://brandonhobson.com/dias daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c4d37cb8ab7227874ce159b/72b5492d-4081-4361-a098-1ba165ebf406/TheDevilIsAsouthepaw_PENgraphic.png DIAS ** FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD ** ** LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN / FAULKNER AWARD** “A feast of whimsy.” — Boston Globe "A book to be savored slowly with an ongoing awe at the prose of author Brandon Hobson...The Devil Is a Southpaw can best be described as having the energy of a creative genius..." — BookPage "A moving, propulsive box of surprises that explores state violence, mental illness, religion, and the long-lasting traumas of incarceration." — Booklist “Hobson has never been more brilliant, more transcendent, more in touch with the beating human spirit, than he is in The Devil is a Southpaw. No other writer is so continuously reinventing the novel, weaving together Cherokee myth, rock and roll, the supernatural, and his own first published paintings. Perhaps his best novel yet, which is really saying something." — Deb Olin Unferth, author of Barn 8 “Brandon Hobson is a great contemporary American fiction writer—wily, funny, sly, sad, and vast. The Devil is A Southpaw is a welcome addition to his very significant stack. It’s got a little Cervantes in it, and a little Pink Floyd, and a lot of American tragedy. I bet you’ll love it, as I did.” –Rick Moody, author of Hotels of North America “There’s plenty of fun to be had with this cerebral novel.” — Publishers Weekly