Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch Book Discussion via Zoom/ There There by Tommy Orange

There There by Tommy Orange

Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the Big Oakland Powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, dance in public for the first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. Fierce, angry, funny, groundbreaking, Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. This is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.

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