There There

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).

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.

Author: Tommy Orange
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 06/05/2018
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780525520375

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 507607 / There There


Award: Pulitzer Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2018 pg. 64
Publishers Weekly 04/02/2018
Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 68
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2018 pg. 36
Booklist 05/01/2018 pg. 64
Shelf Awareness 12/04/2018

About the Author
TOMMY ORANGE is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California, and currently lives in Angels Camp, California.