There there : a novel / Tommy Orange.
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start 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 will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, 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, when 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 decades 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 Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and 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 future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions--intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone 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, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious, unforgettable debut"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525633013 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 436 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Bowen Island Public Library | F ORA (Text) | 30947000608410 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-09 |
Tumbler Ridge Public Library | LP ORANG (Text) | TRL23904 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Sechelt Public Library | LP F ORAN (Text) | 33260100014175 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | F ORA (Text) | 35110001348586 | Adult Large Print Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Williams Lake Branch | ORA (Text) | 33923005986793 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A novelâwhich grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicideâfollows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. A first novel. Simultaneous. - Baker & Taylor
A novel that grapples with the complex history and identity of Native Americans follows twelve characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. - Random House, Inc.
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 âastonishing literary debutâ (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaidâs Tale) âplaces Native American voices front and centerâ (NPR/Fresh Air).
One of The Atlanticâs 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 uncleâs 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 Americanâgrappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism
A book with âso much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that itâs a revelationâ (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.
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