{"title":"Tommy Orange","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"wandering-stars-paperback","title":"Wandering Stars - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller \u003ci\u003eThere There \u003c\/i\u003e(\"Pure soaring beauty.\"\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review) \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, \u003ci\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/i\u003e blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.\" --Morgan Talty, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNight of the Living Rez\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColorado, 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 guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in \u003ci\u003eThere There\u003c\/i\u003e--warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts--asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. \u003ci\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101185282271,"sku":"9780593311448","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hajpH_zkkm9780593311448.webp?v=1781068427"},{"product_id":"there-there-paperback","title":"There There - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA contemporary classic, this \"astonishing literary debut\" (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e) \"places Native American voices front and center\" (NPR\/\u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA book with\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it's a revelation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIt is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down--full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. \u003ci\u003eThere There\u003c\/i\u003e is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101600551135,"sku":"9780525436140","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UCs1WkNIazZWaDVzYytQZFJvTXExQT09.webp?v=1781071801"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tommy-orange.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}