There There
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Tommy Orange
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “places Native American voices front and center” (NPR/Fresh Air).One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsAmong them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroismA book with “so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation” (The New York Times). It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down--full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.Don't miss Tommy Orange's new book, Wandering Stars!
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Author
Tommy Orange
Pages
304
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2018-06-05
ISBN
0525520384 9780525520382
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Zero stars for right now. Hard to rate. It wasn't completely awful, more disappointing. Was hoping for more. Skimmed the parts I didn't think were necessary to read or seem relevant to the the stories or characters, just seemed too drawn out for me to get to any point. Didn't prefer all the character endings either, seemed to leave it hanging on what happened to some of them. "
"In the wake of the extremely recent state of this country, this ending was rough. Although this book was hard to power thru at the beginning, I was happy I read it in the end. New perspectives, fresh writing style, and a genre I don't find myself in often all played into why I ended up enjoying the read. "
"As I was starting, I thought this was a book of short stories, since every chapter featured different characters. It's only as you delve further in that you become aware of the intricate network of relationships in the primarily Oakland California Indian community. Although the characters are not always aware of their connections, there are themes which re-appear over and over: fragile family structures, alcohol abuse, and the unrelenting sense of depression, grief and anger over being Native in the US. One character explains it in a heartbreaking allegory, imagining a white friend coming over to his house for the evening, then staying over, then moving in, then moving all his friends in,then forcing him into a tiny cupboard and confronting him with a gun and a signed document stating that he had deeded the house over...<br/><br/>An astonishing work by a major new talent."
"One of my favorites. The audiobook version is stellar. "
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