There, There by Tommy Orange

- Last updated: December 18, 2020
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"In this vivid and moving book, Orange articulates the challenges and complexities not only of Native Americans, but also of America itself."
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Powell's Books. "I’ve spent much of my adult life searching for a Native voice that echoes my own experience as an urban Indian."
"Review: Tommy Orange’s stunning debut novel There There"
"A challenging debut novel centred on a powwow in urban California explores the breadth of modern Native American life"
"Yes, Tommy Orange’s New Novel Really Is That Good"
"What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer."
Penguin Random House. "Tommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts."
The New Yorker. "[...]having little representation in literature, as well as no (literary) version of our (urban Native) experience, was what made me want to write into that space[...]"
The Guardian. "The Native American novelist on the many voices of his bestselling debut, his own personal canon and the fear of tokenism in publishing"