Product Description
There There
Author: Tommy Orange
Format: Paperback
Discover Tommy Orange's searing debut novel, following a multi-generational cast of characters as they gather for the Big Oakland Powwow.
'A thunderclap' — Marlon James
'Astonishing' — Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
'Pure soaring beauty' — Colm Tóibín
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That's why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and Opal came to watch her boy Orvil dance.
All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand. All of them are here for the celebration that is the Big Oakland Powwow. But Tony Loneman is also there.
And Tony has come to the Powow with darker intentions.
** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **
'An exhilarating, polyphonic debut novel... Dazzling' — Daily Telegraph
'Lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy... Orange creates beauty out of tragedy' — Guardian
'Bold and engrossing... Orange has got under his characters' skins, allowing them to speak for themselves' — Financial Times
About the Author
Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. Orange's debut novel, There There, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, and received the 2019 American Book Award. Wandering Stars is his second book, and was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.
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