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\nJoin us in the B renner Room for a discussion on Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange\, led by J udy Levin. \; \;
\n"Orange's second novel is both prequel an d sequel to the striking There\, There (2018) and a centuries-spa nning novel that stands firmly on its own. Once again featuring several na rrator-characters\, it opens during ""America's longest war""&mdash\;the 3 13 years of settlers' brutal attempts to annihilate the Native people who preceded them. The boy who will become Jude Star \; wakes to the sound of his camp's massacre\, and escapes. In 1875\, he's taken from Oklahoma to a ""prison-castle"" on the Florida coast\; his jailer will one day teac h his son at the Carlisle Indian School. We continue to meet Jude's inheri tors (the provided family tree is key) and then it is 2018\, and Jude's te enage great-great-great grandson Orvil is recovering from the climactic ev ents of There There. Orvil's wicked pain\, and increasing need for medicat ion to numb it\, lead to Sean\, recuperating from injury himself\, who has access to homemade painkillers. Orvil's grandmothers and brothers have st ruggles of their own. All this barely scratches the surface of Orange's te nder yet eviscerating history of a family's survival&mdash\;day to day\, g eneration to generation&mdash\;and their uneasy yet persistent belief in t hat survival. Their story\, one character realizes\, ""has to be lived in order to be told\, it is the song being sung\, the dancer in midair\,"" an d\, indeed\, there is so much life in this mesmerizing\, kaleidoscopic nov el." -- Annie Bostrom\, Booklist
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