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The Removed, A Novel Grade Twelve Blackwood was on a two-yearThe Removed is a novel by author Brandon Hobson, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. 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. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimers in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic