There there book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. Here is a voice we have never heard-a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. It’s "masterful … white-hot … devastating" (Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to put down. There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. ![]() Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will to perform in public for the very first time. ![]() Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame.ĭene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow-some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent-momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. ![]()
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