Where the Dead Sit Talking
Ratings2
Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. 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 unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American backgrounds 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"--
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3.5 Rounded up.
I'm not entirely sure what I read, it was confusing at times, uncomfortable at times and sometimes very dark, it felt like perhaps the most real coming of age narrative I have ever read and entirely alien at the same time.
For the ace/sex repulsed in the room: approach with care the MC thinks about sex and sexual violence a fair bit and sometimes it comes at you seemingly out of the blue. That being said I wouldn't say this book is particularly horny, the approach to sex is rather neutral (the main character speaks rather neutrally of just about everything).
