There There

ISBN: 0525436146

Author: Orange, Tommy

Condition: Used

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 Handmaids Tale) places Native American voices front and center (NPR/Fresh Air).One of The Atlantics 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 uncles 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 withso much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that its 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!