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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 Handmaid’s Tale) “places Native American voices front and center” (NPR/Fresh Air). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Among 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 uncle’s 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 heroism A book with“so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s 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! Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reprint edition (May 7, 2019)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0525436146


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 40


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.15 x 0.65 x 8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #1,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #8 in Native American Literature (Books) #10 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #241 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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    • DROP EVERYTHING AND READ THIS POWERFUL NOVEL
Y’all. This book. It packs a punch like no other, and I was captivated by it as the stories began to intertwine and come to a head, to one final moment that brings the characters all together in this gripping tale transcending multiple generations. Gripping is an understatement… when all was said and done, and the novel stopped, I felt myself continue to lurch forward with momentum. I don’t think I can express how deep and beautiful this novel is. I can’t do it justice. But let me back up. Tommy Orange’s novel is difficult to start. When I first began listening via audiobook, I thought I was going to hate it. It didn’t make sense to me. The prologue, which is part of the novel and should be read, begins with a candid retelling of history as North Americans know it–laying bare what the history books don’t teach us, shedding light on the part of history that we’d like to forget and sweep under a rug, never to be seen again. I thought to myself, “is this novel a history lesson?”. No. But yes. Though fictitious, it has many truths, and the experiences of many of these characters are unfortunately all too real. Because those affected by our nation’s bloody history in the past are still affected by it in our present, which Orange makes explicitly clear as his novel commences with the first story from our twelve narrators, Tony Loneman. Truth be told, the first story, Tony’s story, was not how I’d start this novel. I found it a bit dry, and I wasn’t sure where Orange was going with the novel. Then the second narrator took over, and I didn’t see any obvious connections, and I was wondering, “is this novel just a grouping of short stories?”. The stories were just there, and they didn’t entice me. They were just unhitched stories. But as I continued, I began to see the connections methodically woven between the characters, all of which is leading us, the narrators and the reader, to one final moment at the powwow; all of these twelve characters are perfectly interconnected, though they don’t know it as of yet. And as they continue their stories, adding to what we already know, and beginning to converge on Oakland’s Coliseum, the novel takes hold, creating feelings of intense foreboding through Orange’s employ of dramatic irony. The interlude, from which I quoted a particularly stunning section above, floored me, and it was then that I knew, without a doubt, that this novel is a five star read. Orange is matter-of-fact, and he’s hitting on topics that we, as a nation, have fought about for far too long, still attempting to sweep truth under the rug in order to not face the reality of our current world, or who we are, and our sordid history. And while the interlude above is just that, and the narrators barely touch upon what is explicitly stated above–it’s not a novel steeped in politics or in your face–it’s there, calling to the reader, reminding us that privilege exists, that some are luckier than others, and that if we are to survive this harrowing world, we must come together, to understand one another, and to stop the fighting. This novel is fierce. When There There ended, I was speechless. One, I couldn’t believe Orange left us the way he did, but two, it’s just so unspeakably beautiful, thought-provoking, and intense. Five amazing stars! I borrowed the audible of this novel from the library, but then purchased my own paperback copy from Amazon, because this powerful novel is a must for my shelves. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2019 by A Book Vacation
    • An important read
This acclaimed novel tells an important story. It presents the complex and painful history of Native Americans. The characters leap off the page. An intense and riveting read.
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2024 by NolaStJ
    • So Many Emotions
Sadness, acceptance, pain and longing intertwined just as the characters themselves are intertwined. A tough story about identity, history and place, but my gosh, what beautiful prose. The rhythm really got to me.
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2024 by Website's Mom
    • There There is So So with a hint of brilliance
Tommy Orange effectively frames up a narrative that is full of angst, sadness and raw contempt, weaving a series of Native American allegories and historical set pieces that create context for the voices we’re introduced to in the first few chapters. This is a young writer with great potential who almost wrote a great book... The author, or his characters, are in a sense maimed emotionally, and the prologue attempts to establish this through the use of grotesque imagery of severed hands and heads in whiskey jars and on spikes, haunting reminders of past sins of American settlers which have soaked through the memories of generation after generation like blood through a blanket. It ends up bringing us to present day, or recent history, recounting the Urban Indians born into the modern metropolis with references to recent wars and attempts at assimilation, which are selective of course, representative certainly though of a segment of the population familiar to the writer. In my life I had grown up with Native Americans near Reno Nevada, came to know many of them quite well, and they were not at all as consumed with the melancholy which is richly described throughout his prologue and the book. Nonetheless, it’s a viable narrative and I can hear the passion behind the resentment and contempt, understand the context, but from my perspective it is steeped in a lot of pity, screams of youthful rage. I was immediately struck by some of the initial passages which I felt were pulled straight out of Wikipedia and then later when the references to “you can find it on the internet” came up, I surmised and later determined through a quick hopping of hyperlinked footnotes that some of the historical pretext looked like it had been carefully paraphrased, in particular the history of Metacomet. In diving into the characters, beginning with Tony Loneman and then followed by Dean Oxedene, I was really pulled in by the pain of these two characters. The narrative was convincing, the stream of consciousness style is more present in some parts than others and I could hear the voice of the characters distinctly. I did have a little trouble tying the command of erudite references to writers like Gertrude Stein and illustrators like Ralph Steadman to the characters profiles. Some of the passages felt a little inside baseball to me and didn’t fit with the story/ Each of his characters falls back on historical injustices of walls, borders, land and then internalizes them in order to help them, or their characters find meaning by breaking down the notion of those barriers or that property exists as something that is not physical, but is more importantly spiritual. There are many passages that seem to call out injustice over land being taken and yet disregard the very notion of that land as instrumental to what his characters are and symbolize. The walls that he describes that need to come down or are nonexistent precisely because it’s the culture, the feeling of the people, the ethnicity as you will, that is everlasting and connects them to the earth and each other. It is a feeling within those characters and the writer that identity is inextricably linked to our ancestors and their pain, something I can relate to except for the fact that it seems to so dominate their outlook that they are hopelessly defined by that misery. There seems to be no lightheartedness to it all or any of it really. I’m left with the impression that Tommy Orange has a magnificent command of the English language and code switching but is unable to let go of some very primal instincts that he may eventually gain from through more life experiences. As a youth I felt this same rage and contempt for history, for the sins of my fathers, but later came to understand that life is not as static as I expected and that context was just as important as my gut instincts and the uncontrolled passion that colored my own prejudices. Experience taught me that evil, racism, hatred and contempt was in the heart of every man and every woman of every color and can only be combatted with sobriety, patience and love. Looking forward to hearing more from this author and seeing whether he evolves or simply digs in to recycled protest lyrics. He definitly has the potential to be one of our great novelists and writers. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019 by Rafael Moscatel

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