In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. 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 - Ray-Ray's mother attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. As the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. Author of "Where the Dead Sit Talking." Print run 75,000.
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