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A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “really is that good” (New York Times).
Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss.
Fierce, angry, funny, and heartbreaking There There is a relentlessly paced multi-generational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. An unforgettable debut.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780771073014
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780525520375
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780525633013
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780771073038
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780525436140
- EBook
- ISBN 9780771073021
- EBook
- ISBN 9780525520382
- AudioStreaming
- ISBN 9780525635574
- AudioStreaming
- ISBN 9780525635598
- AudioDisc
- ISBN 9780525635581
- AudioDisc
- ISBN 9780525635567
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • HEATHER'S PICK • A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK
A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “really is that good” (New York Times).
Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss.
Fierce, angry, funny, and heartbreaking There There is a relentlessly paced multi-generational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. An unforgettable debut.
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • HEATHER'S PICK • A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK
A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “really is that good” (New York Times).
Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss.
Fierce, angry, funny, and heartbreaking There There is a relentlessly paced multi-generational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. An unforgettable debut.
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Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
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Tommy Orange
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There There is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780771073014) and hardcover(ISBN 9780525520375) and paperback(ISBN 9780525633013) and paperback(ISBN 9780771073038) and paperback(ISBN 9780525436140) and ebook(ISBN 9780771073021) and ebook(ISBN 9780525520382) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9780525635574) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9780525635598) and audiodisc(ISBN 9780525635581) and audiodisc(ISBN 9780525635567)
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