There there

a novel

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Tommy Orange: There there (2018)

[LARGE PRINT EDITION] :, 448 pages

English language

Published Oct. 30, 2018

ISBN:
978-0-525-63301-3
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OCLC Number:
1028238031

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4 stars (1 review)

"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil then boil hot enough to burn through time and place and memory. We'll go back to where we came from, …

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Subjects

  • Interpersonal relations
  • Powwows
  • Indians of North America
  • Fiction