Tommy Orange
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"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...
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So viel Energie, so viel Schönheit, so viel Erkenntnis - Jacquie ist endlich nüchtern und will zu der Familie zurückkehren, die sie vor vielen Jahren verlassen hat. Dene sammelt mit einer alten Kamera Geschichten von indianischem Leben. Edwin sucht seinen Vater. Und Orvil will zum ersten Mal den Tanz der Vorfahren tanzen. Ihre Leben sind miteinander verwoben, und sie sind zum großen Powwow in Oakland gekommen, um ihre Traditionen zu feiern. Doch...
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"'Wandering Stars' traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in 'There There'"-- Provided by publisher.
"Colorado, 1864, Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison-castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison...
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[2024]
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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...