There There by Tommy Orange (English) Paperback Book

Description: There There by Tommy Orange 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 Handmaids Tale) "places Native American voices front and center" (NPR/Fresh Air).One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsAmong 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 uncles 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 heroismA book with "so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that its 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.Dont miss Tommy Oranges new book, Wandering Stars! FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography TOMMY ORANGE is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. Review PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NOMINEEOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe"Powerful. . . . There There has so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that its a revelation." —The New York Times "With a literary authority rare in a debut novel, it places Native American voices front and center before readers eyes." —NPR/Fresh Air"An astonishing literary debut." —Margaret Atwood"Masterful. . . . White-hot. . . Devastating." —The Washington Post "Pure soaring beauty." —The New York Times Book Review "Stunning." —The Boston Globe "Brilliantly, furiously, magnificently, tragically, the story of America." —Elle "Heartbreaking." —Esquire "Electrifying." —Entertainment Weekly "Brilliant, propulsive." —People"Exquisite. . . . [An] exceptional debut. . . . Sublimely render[s] the truth of experiences that are passed over." —San Francisco Chronicle "Mr. Oranges sparkling debut is not merely a literary triumph but a cultural and political one, too. It is a work of defiance and recovery." —The Economist "Powerful. . . . As contemporary, tragic, and American as a breaking news alert." —The Christian Science Monitor "Stunning." —Mother Jones "How do you rewrite the story of a people? This question shapes Tommy Oranges sorrowful, beautiful debut novel. . . . Even in its tragic details, it is lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy." —The Guardian "Gripping. . . . Unforgettable. . . . There There paints a vivid portrait of American lives few readers have ever known." —Bustle "Reader, I must confirm: There There really is an extremely good book. . . . This is a trim and powerful book, a careful exploration of identity and meaning in a world that makes it hard to define either. Go ahead and go there there." —Constance Grady, Vox "This is the kind of novel you finish and immediately need your book club to read so you can talk about it with other people. . . . Its also a powerful reminder of the ability of narrative to move minds." —GOOP "Staggering. . . . Expertly rendered. . . . Orange successfully refutes the idea of a monolithic Native American identity." —Buzzfeed "As funny as it is heartbreaking, tracking the multigenerational story of twelve Native Americans with themes of violence, identity, and despair." —PopSugar "Oranges novel is one of healing, pulling together the intimacies of family, community, history, and violence." —The Rumpus "An ambitious and galvanizing novel. . . . Its somehow a page-turner at the same time, propelled by the incandescent energy of Oranges prose." —Thrillist "Bursting with talent and big ideas… Funny and profane and conscious of the violence that runs like a scar through American culture." —The Seattle Times "[A] smashing debut. . . . Urgent. . . . The voices are dynamic, varied and very much of the moment, a chorus of American Indian voices coming straight from the city." —The Dallas Morning News "Compulsively readable. . . . A dazzlingly intricate narrative that marries the personal and the ancestral. . . . A masterful work." —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Searing. . . . There There finds satisfying richness in the minutiae of its characters lives—their daily victories and losses, enduring frustrations, acts of tenderness, and senses of wonder." —The Austin Chronicle "[Orange] writes with such finely honed literary craft that the book fairly begs to be read more than once. . . . It is gritty as well as beautiful, poetic; it is shocking, sometimes very amusing, often emotionally gut-punching, and rife with unsentimental insight." —Santa Fe New Mexican "Oranges book is truly a page turner filled with multi-generational accounts of violence, recovery, memory, identity, beauty, and even a little despair. Its a book where you as the reader cant put down until you finish it with both a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of anticipation of what could happen next." —Lakota Country Times "This is not just a novel. Its a carefully, beautifully crafted speech into a megaphone, telling stories of real, contemporary Native life in a specific place. . . . It offers a glimpse of an interconnected life, a world in which small stones dont just sink to the bottom of the sea but changes tides." —The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Bold and engrossing. . . . There is hope in this book, hope in the strength of stories told and stories that are finally heard. . . . The wonder of this accomplished debut is the way in which he has got under his characters skins, allowing them to speak for themselves. . . . This is a powerful novel of pain and possibility." —Financial Times "Welcome to a brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American Fiction. There There is a comic vision haunted by profound sadness. Tommy Orange is a new writer with an old heart." —Louise Erdrich "There There drops on us like a thunderclap; the big, booming, explosive sound of twenty-first century literature finally announcing itself. Essential." —Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings "There There is a miraculous achievement, a book that wields ferocious honesty and originality in service of telling a story that needs to be told. This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging." —Omar El Akkad, author of American War "There There is an urgent, invigorating, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer Ive come across in a long, long time." —Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus Review Quote PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER * A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NOMINEE One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post , NPR, Time , O, The Oprah Magazine , The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe "Powerful. . . . There There has so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that its a revelation." -- The New York Times "With a literary authority rare in a debut novel, it places Native American voices front and center before readers eyes." --NPR/ Fresh Air "An astonishing literary debut." --Margaret Atwood "Masterful. . . . White-hot. . . Devastating." -- The Washington Post "Pure soaring beauty." -- The New York Times Book Review "Stunning." -- The Boston Globe "Brilliantly, furiously, magnificently, tragically, the story of America." -- Elle "Heartbreaking." -- Esquire "Electrifying." -- Entertainment Weekly "Brilliant, propulsive." -- People "Exquisite. . . . [An] exceptional debut. . . . Sublimely render[s] the truth of experiences that are passed over." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Mr. Oranges sparkling debut is not merely a literary triumph but a cultural and political one, too. It is a work of defiance and recovery." -- The Economist "Powerful. . . . As contemporary, tragic, and American as a breaking news alert." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Stunning." -- Mother Jones "How do you rewrite the story of a people? This question shapes Tommy Oranges sorrowful, beautiful debut novel. . . . Even in its tragic details, it is lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy." -- The Guardian "Gripping. . . . Unforgettable. . . . There There paints a vivid portrait of American lives few readers have ever known." -- Bustle "Reader, I must confirm: There There really is an extremely good book. . . . This is a trim and powerful book, a careful exploration of identity and meaning in a world that makes it hard to define either. Go ahead and go there there." --Constance Grady, Vox "This is the kind of novel you finish and immediately need your book club to read so you can talk about it with other people. . . . Its also a powerful reminder of the ability of narrative to move minds." -- GOOP "Staggering. . . . Expertly rendered. . . . Orange successfully refutes the idea of a monolithic Native American identity." -- Buzzfeed "As funny as it is heartbreaking, tracking the multigenerational story of twelve Native Americans with themes of violence, identity, and despair." -- PopSugar "Oranges novel is one of healing, pulling together the intimacies of family, community, history, and violence." -- The Rumpus "An ambitious and galvanizing novel. . . . Its somehow a page-turner at the same time, propelled by the incandescent energy of Oranges prose." -- Thrillist "Bursting with talent and big ideas... Funny and profane and conscious of the violence that runs like a scar through American culture." -- The Seattle Times "[A] smashing debut. . . . Urgent. . . . The voices are dynamic, varied and very much of the moment, a chorus of American Indian voices coming straight from the city." -- The Dallas Morning News "Compulsively readable. . . . A dazzlingly intricate narrative that marries the personal and the ancestral. . . . A masterful work." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Searing. . . . There There finds satisfying richness in the minutiae of its characters lives--their daily victories and losses, enduring frustrations, acts of tenderness, and senses of wonder." -- The Austin Chronicle "[Orange] writes with such finely honed literary craft that the book fairly begs to be read more than once. . . . It is gritty as well as beautiful, poetic; it is shocking, sometimes very amusing, often emotionally gut-punching, and rife with unsentimental insight." -- Santa Fe New Mexican "Oranges book is truly a page turner filled with multi-generational accounts of violence, recovery, memory, identity, beauty, and even a little despair. Its a book where you as the reader cant put down until you finish it with both a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of anticipation of what could happen next." -- Lakota Country Times "This is not just a novel. Its a carefully, beautifully crafted speech into a megaphone, telling stories of real, contemporary Native life in a specific place. . . . It offers a glimpse of an interconnected life, a world in which small stones dont just sink to the bottom of the sea but changes tides." -- The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Bold and engrossing. . . . There is hope in this book, hope in the strength of stories told and stories that are finally heard. . . . The wonder of this accomplished debut is the way in which he has got under his characters skins, allowing them to speak for themselves. . . . This is a powerful novel of pain and possibility." -- Financial Times "Welcome to a brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American Fiction. There There is a comic vision haunted by profound sadness. Tommy Orange is a new writer with an old heart." --Louise Erdrich " There There drops on us like a thunderclap; the big, booming, explosive sound of twenty-first century literature finally announcing itself. Essential." --Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings " There There is a miraculous achievement, a book that wields ferocious honesty and originality in service of telling a story that needs to be told. This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging." --Omar El Akkad, author of American War " There There is an urgent, invigorating, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer Ive come across in a long, long time." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus Discussion Question for Reading Group Guide 1. The prologue of There There provides a historical overview of how Native populations were systematically stripped of their identity, their rights, their land, and, in some cases, their very existence by colonialist forces in America. How did reading this section make you feel? How does the prologue set the tone for the reader? Discuss the use of the Indian head as iconography. How does this relate to the erasure of Native identity in American culture? 2. Discuss the development of the "Urban Indian" identity and ownership of that label. How does it relate to the push for assimilation by the United States government? How do the characters in There There navigate this modern form of identity alongside their ancestral roots? 3. Consider the following statement from page 9: "We stayed because the city sounds like a war, and you cant leave a war once youve been, you can only keep it at bay." In what ways does the historical precedent for violent removal of Native populations filter into the modern era? How does violence--both internal and external--appear throughout the narrative? 4. On page 7, Orange states: "Weve been defined by everyone else and continue to be slandered despite easy-to-look-up-on-the-internet facts about the realities of our histories and current state as a people." Discuss this statement in relation to how Native populations have been defined in popular culture. How do the characters in There There resist the simplification and flattening of their cultural identity? Relate the idea of preserving cultural identity to Dene Oxendenes storytelling mission. 5. Tony Lonemans perspective both opens and closes There There . Why do you think Orange made this choice for the narrative? What does Lonemans perspective reveal about the "Urban Indian" identity? About the landscape of Oakland? 6. When readers are first introduced to Dene Oxendene, we learn of his impulse to tag various spots around the city. How did you interpret this act? How does graffiti culture work to recontextualize public spaces? 7. Discuss the interaction between Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield and Two Shoes that occurs on pages 50-52. How does Opal view Two Shoess "Indianness"? What is the import of the Teddy Roosevelt anecdote that he shares with her? How does this relate to the overall theme of narrative and authenticity that occurs throughout There There ? 8. Describe the resettlement efforts at Alcatraz. What are the goals for inhabiting this land? What vision does Opal and Jacquies mother have for her family in moving to Alcatraz? 9. On page 58, Opals mother tells her that she needs to honor her people "by living right, by telling our stories. [That] the world was made of stories, nothing else, and stories about stories." How does this emphasis on storytelling function throughout There There ? Consider the relationship between storytelling and power. How does storytelling allow for diverse narratives to emerge? What is the relationship between storytelling and historical memory? 10. On page 77, Edwin Black asserts, "The problem with Indigenous art in general is that its stuck in the past." How does the tension between modernity and tradition emerge throughout the narrative? Which characters seek to find a balance between honoring the past and looking toward the future? When is the attempt to do so successful? 11. Discuss the generational attitudes toward spirituality in the Native community in There There . Which characters embrace their elders spiritual practices? Who doubts the efficacy of those efforts? How did you interpret the incident of Orvil and the spider legs? 12. How is the city of Oakland characterized in the novel? How does the citys gentrification affect the novels characters? Their attitudes toward home and stability? 13. How is femininity depicted in There There ? What roles do the female characters assume in their community? Within their families? 14. Discuss Orvils choice to participate in the powwow. What attracts him to the event? Why does Opal initially reject his interest in "Indianness"? How do his brothers react to it? 15. Discuss the Interlude that occurs on pages 134-41. What is the import of this section? How does it provide key contextual information for the Big Oakland PowWow that occurs at the end of the novel? What is the significance of this event and others like it for the Native community? 16. Examine the structure of There There . Why do you think Orange chose to present his narrative using different voices and different perspectives? How do the interlude and the prologue help to bolster the themes of the narrative? What was the most surprising element of the novel to you? What was its moment of greatest impact? Excerpt from Book Prologue "In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times." Bertolt Brecht Indian Head There was an Indian head, the head of an Indian, the drawing of the head of a headdressed, long haired, Indian depicted, drawn by an unknown artist in 1939, broadcast until the late 1970s to American TVs everywhere after all the shows ran out. Its called the Indian Head Test Pattern. If you left the TV on, youd hear a tone at 440 hertz--the tone used to tune instruments--and youd see that Indian, surrounded by circles that looked like sights through rifle scopes. There was what looked like a bullseye in the middle of the screen, with numbers like coordinates. The Indian head was just above the bullseye, like all youd need to do was nod up in agreement to set the sights on the target. This was just a test. In 1621, colonists invited Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, to a feast after a recent land deal. Massasoit came with ninety of his men. That meal is why we still eat a meal together in November. Celebrate it as a nation. But that one wasnt a thanksgiving meal. It was a land deal meal. Two years later there was another, similar meal, meant to symbolize eternal friendship. Two hundred Indians dropped dead that night from supposed unknown poison. By the time Massasoits son Metacomet became chief, there were no Indian-Pilgrim meals being eaten together. Metacomet, also known as King Phillip, was forced to sign a peace treaty to give up all Indian guns. Three of his men were hanged. His brother Wamsutta was lets say very likely poisoned after being summoned and seized by the Plymouth court. All of which lead to the first official Indian war. The first war with Indians. King Phillips War. Three years later the war was over and Metacomet was on the run. He was caught by Benjamin Church, Captain of the very first American Ranger force and an Indian by the name of John Alderman. Metacomet was beheaded and dismembered. Quartered. They tied his four body sections to nearby trees for the birds to pluck. John Alderman was given Metacomets hand, which he kept in a jar of rum and for years took it around with him--charged people to see it. Metacomets head was sold to the Plymouth Colony for thirty shillings--the going rate for an Indian head at the time. The head was spiked and carried through the streets of Plymouth before it was put on display at Plymouth Colony Fort for the next twenty five years. In 1637, anywhere from four to seven hundred Pequot were gathered for their annual green corn dance. Colonists surrounded the Pequot village, set it on fire, and shot any Pequot who tried to escape. The next day the Massachusetts Bay Colony had a feast in celebration, and the governor declared it a day of thanksgiving. Thanksgivings like these happened everywhere, whenever there were, what we have to call: successful massacres. At one such celebration in Manhattan, people were said to have celebrated by kicking the heads of Pequot people through the streets like soccer balls. The first novel ever written by a Native person, and the first novel written in California, was written in 1854, by a Cherokee guy named John Rollin Ridge. His novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta , was based on a supposed real-life Mexican bandit from California by the same name, who, in 1853, was killed by a group of Texas rangers. To prove theyd killed Murrieta and collect the five thousand dollar reward put on his head--they cut it off. Kept it in a jar of whiskey. They also took the hand of his fellow bandit Three Fingered Jack. The rangers took Joaquins head and the hand on a tour throughout California, charged a dollar for the show. The Indian head in the jar, the Indian head on a pike were like flags flown, to be seen, cast broadly. Just like the Indian head test pattern was broadcast to sleeping Americans as we set sail from our living rooms, over the ocean blue green glowing airwaves, to the shores, the screens of the new world. Rolling Head Theres an old Cheyenne story about a rolling head. We heard it said there was a family who moved away from their camp, moved near a lake--husband, wife, daughter, son. In the morning when the husband finished dancing, he would brush his wifes hair and paint her face red, then go off to hunt. When he came back her face would be clean. After this happened a few times he decided to follow her and hide, see what she did while he was gone. He found her in the lake, with a water monster, some kind of snake thing, wrapped around her in an embrace. The man cut the monster up and killed his wife. He brought the meat home to his son and daughter. They noticed it tasted different. The son who was still nursing said, my mother tastes just like this. His older sister told him its just deer meat. While they ate a head rolled in. They ran and the head followed them. The sister remembered where they played, how thick the thorns were there, and she brought the thorns to life behind them with her words. But the head broke through, kept coming. Then she remembered where rocks used to be piled in a difficult way. The rocks appeared when she spoke of them, but didnt stop the head, so she drew a hard line in the ground which made a deep chasm the head couldnt cross. But after a long heavy rain, the chasm filled with water. The head crossed the water, and when it reached the other side, it turned around and drank all that water up. The rolling head became confused and drunk. It wanted more. More of anything. More of everything. And it just kept rolling. One thing we should keep in mind, moving forward, is that no one ever rolled heads down temple stairs. Mel Gibson made that up. But we do have, those of us who saw the movie, in our minds the rolling heads down temple stairs in a world meant to resemble the real Indian world in the 1500s in ancient Mexico. Mexicans before they were Mexicans. Before Spain came. Weve been defined by everyone else and continue to be slandered despite easy-to-look-up-on-the-internet facts about the realities of our histories and current state as a people. We have the sad, defeated Indian silhouette, and the rolling heads down temple stairs, we have it in our heads, Kevin Costner saving us, John Waynes six-shooter slaying us, an Italian guy named Iron Eyes Cody playing our parts in movies. We have the litter-mourning, tear-ridden Indian in the commercial (also Iron Eyes Cody), and the sink-tossing, Jack Nicholson saving, crazy Indian who was the narrator in the novel, the voice of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest . We have all the logos and mascots. The copy of a copy of the image of an Indian in a textbook. All the way from the top of Canada, the top of Alaska, down to the bottom of South America, Indians were removed then reduced to a feathered image. Our heads are on flags, jerseys, and coins. Our heads were on the penny first, of course, the Indian head cent, and then on the buffalo nickel, both before we could even vote as a people--which, like the truth of what happened in history all over the world, and like all that spilled blood from slaughter, is now out of circulation. Massacre as Prologue Some of us grew up with stories about massacres. Stories about what happened to our people not so long ago. How we came out of it. At Sand Creek, we heard it said that they mowed us down with their howitzers. Volunteer militia under Colonel John Chivington came to kill us, we were mostly women, children, and elders. The men were away to hunt. Theyd told us to fly the American flag. We flew that and a white flag too. Surrender, the white flag waved. We stood under both flags as they came at us. They did more than kill us. They tore us up. Mutilated us. Broke our fingers to take our rings, cut off our ears to take our silver, scalped us for our hair. We hid in the hollows of tree trunks, buried ourselves in sand by the riverbank. That same sand ran red with blood. They tore unborn babies out of bellies, took what we intended to be, our children before they were children, babies before they were babies, they ripped them out of our bellies. They broke soft baby heads against trees. Then they took our body parts as trophies and displayed them on stage in a downtown Denver. Colonel Chivington danced with dismembered parts of us in his hands, with womens pubic hair, drunk, he danced, and the crowd gathered there before him were all the worse for cheering and laughing along with him. It was a celebration. Hard, Fast Getting us to cities was supposed to be the final, necessary step in our assimilation, absorption, erasure, completion of a five hundred year old genocidal campaign. But the city made us new, and we made it ours. We didnt get lost amidst the sprawl of tall buildings, the stream of anonymous masses, the ceaseless din of traffic. We found each other, started up Indian Centers, brought out our families and powwows, our dances, our songs, our beadwork. We bought and rented homes, slept on the streets, under freeways, we went to school, joined the armed forces, populated Indian bars in the Fruitvale in Oakland, and in the Mission in San Francisco. We lived in boxcar villages in Richmond. We made art and we made babies and we made way for our people to go back and forth between reservation and city. We did not move to cities to die. The sidewalks and streets, the concrete absorbed our heaviness. The glass, metal, rubber and wires, the speed, the hurtling masses--the city took us in. W Details ISBN0525436146 Author Tommy Orange Short Title THERE THERE Pages 304 Language English ISBN-10 0525436146 ISBN-13 9780525436140 Format Paperback DEWEY 813.6 Year 2019 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-05-07 NZ Release Date 2019-05-07 US Release Date 2019-05-07 Place of Publication New York UK Release Date 1900-01-01 Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2019-05-07 Imprint Vintage Books Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:124346970;

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