"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfigh t in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urg ent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fict ion. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the s tart 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 wi ll be death and playing dead\, there will be screams and unbearable silenc es\, forever-silences\, and a kind of time-travel\, at the moment the guns hots start\, when we look around and see ourselves as we are\, in our rega lia\, 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\, w hen we were people running from bullets at the end of that old world. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable\, that we've been fighting for decad es to be recognized as a present-tense people\, modern and relevant\, only to die in the grass wearing feathers." Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakl and. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death an d has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather\; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos\, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose fu ture seems destined to be as bleak as his past\, and he has come to the Po wwow with darker intentions--intentions that will destroy the lives of eve ryone in his path. Fierce\, angry\, funny\, groundbreaking--Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational\, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery\, hope and loss\, identity and power\, d islocation and communion\, and the beauty and despair woven into the histo ry of a nation and its people. A glorious\, unforgettable debut"-- Provide d by publisher
\nAbout the author:
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Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel\, "There There\," a mul ti-generational\, relentlessly paced story about aside of America few of u s have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. "There There" was o ne of The New York Times Book Review&rsquo\;s 10 Best Books of the Year\, and won the Center for Fiction&rsquo\;s First Novel Prize and the Pen/Hemi ngway Award. "There There" was also longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts\, and was a 2014 MacDowel l Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oa kland\, California.
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