Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange i s available as a print book\, e-book\, downloadable audiobook\, a preloaded audiobook\, a large pr int book\, and as a Book Club Kit in the Library's collection.
\n"Co lorado\, 1864. Star\, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre\, is bro ught to the Fort Marion Prison Castle\, where he is forced to learn Englis h and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt\, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School\, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history\, culture\, and identity. A generation later\, Star's son\, Charles\, is sent to the scho ol\, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. U nder Pratt's harsh treatment\, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student\, Opal Viola\, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. Oakland\, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together aft er the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the mo ment he awakens in his hospital bed\, Orvil begins compulsively googling s chool shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the pre scription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger broth er\, Lony\, suffering from PTSD\, is struggling to make sense of the carna ge he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting b lood rituals that he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift\, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote\, searching fo r a way to heal her wounded family. Tommy Orange once again delivers a sto ry that is piercing in its poetry\, sorrow\, and rage and is a devastating indictment of America's war on its own people."
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