Where the Dead Sit Talking horror Clatterbuck explores contemporary Native Christianity

Clatterbuck explores contemporary Native Christianity by listening as indigenous voices narrate their own stories on their own terms

Luci Tapahonso shows how the details of everyday life—whether the tragedy of losing a loved one or the joy of raising children

the authors bring to life the sky world of a northern people

this encyclopedic reference details Indian tribes in these areas: beliefs

from 2000 to 2011

Where the Dead Sit Talking horror Clatterbuck explores contemporary Native Christianity2018 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