(Ebook) There There: A Novel by Tommy Orange ISBN 9781784707972, 178470797X, B07666SNJK

(Ebook) There There: A Novel by Tommy Orange ISBN 9781784707972, 178470797X, B07666SNJK

Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. "There There drops on us like a thunderclap; the big, booming, explosive sound of 21st-century literature finally announcing itself. Essential."  -  Marlon JamesJacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle’s memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, heroism, and loss."In Tommy Orange’s There There, an ambitious meditation on identity and its broken alternatives, on myth filtered through the lens of time and poverty and urban life, on tradition all the more pressing because of its fragility, it is as if he seeks to reconfigure Oakland as a locus of desire and dreams, to remake the city in the likeness of his large and fascinating set of characters..."  -  Colm Toibin, The New York Times Book ReviewThere There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It’s “masterful ... white-hot... devastating” (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to put down. Here is a voice we have never heard — a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force.