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Tommy Orange

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Inkluderar namnet: Tommy Orange (author)

Foto taget av: Author Tommy Orange at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73982519

Verk av Tommy Orange

There There (2018) 4,206 exemplar
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The State 2 exemplar
The Team 1 exemplar

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Orange, Tommy
Födelsedag
1982
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Oakland, Californië, USA
Bostadsorter
Angels Camp, Californië, USA
Utbildning
Institute of American Indian Arts (MFA)

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sequel to there there
 
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135wea | 9 andra recensioner | Mar 28, 2024 |
fiction - sort of a prequel to There There, going back through generations of inherited trauma to the Carlisle School and the Sand Creek Massacre before that -- would work as a standalone but I recommend reading There There first.

Sort of slow to start, maybe because the topics covered are so weighty or because I usually struggle when being introduced to multiple characters, but it was relatively easy to settle in with the various characters by the middle third of the book as the patterns of addiction take shape (affecting each person differently but seemingly inescapable). I am enjoying it so far, or at least as much as one can enjoy a story filled with such tragedy.

bingo 2024: author read 1x before, includes a prologue.
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reader1009 | 9 andra recensioner | Mar 26, 2024 |
This book presents an assortment of Native American characters from different backgrounds with one thing in common - they don’t live on a reservation. They are urban, and trying to figure out what exactly that means to them. What does it mean to be Native if you live surrounded by white people and white culture and colonialism? Are you Native because of your blood? How much? How do you know if you feel native enough?

The characters are all heading toward a big event - an urban powwow in Oakland, California. Some of them are helping to organize it, others are dancing or playing instruments or meeting family they barely know or just attending. But life under colonialism takes a toll, and things don’t end well.

I really enjoyed the characters here, and I wish I had gotten to know more about them. Some of the teenage/young adult boys blended together in a way that was hard to follow, but that might have been on purpose. Some of the connections between characters seemed a little far fetched, but connection is a theme of the book so it worked. The writing style is very stream-of-consciousness, which is very much not my thing, but if you like it this is an incredible example. I really did not care for the ending, but it did feel appropriate to the story. Certainly a book I appreciate having read, but I won’t be reading it again.
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norabelle414 | 191 andra recensioner | Mar 20, 2024 |
This sequel to Native author Tommy Orange's brilliant 2018 debut novel There There stands up well next to the original - at least, the second half does. The first half recounts the difficult lives of Sand Creek Massacre survivors, their passages through the notorious Carlisle Indian School, and the family's migration to Oakland. The second part deals with the aftermath of a shooting at an Oakland Powwow, the conclusion of There There, when young teenager Orvil is left mortally wounded and addicted to painkillers, and his grandmother, great aunt, and two brothers are almost as devastated and unable to return to their prior modicum of happiness. The novel's focus on addiction and a life of recovery also demonstrates the strength generated by family love and acceptance and by friendship and by music and by simply living outside. We are solidly in the heads of grandmother Opal, Orville, and his younger brother Lony, and the pages so strongly convey their highest hope and deepest despair.… (mer)
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froxgirl | 9 andra recensioner | Mar 20, 2024 |

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Verk
5
Även av
4
Medlemmar
4,419
Popularitet
#5,671
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
202
ISBN
51
Språk
11

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