draw on the legends

The summer before going into high school

but by advocating for political

and nurses working in modern Native ways

He describes his childhood there

Where the Dead Sit Talking children draw on the legends2018 National Book Award Fiction Finalist. Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming of age story. 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