The Resource There there : a novel, Tommy Orange
There there : a novel, Tommy Orange
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The item There there : a novel, Tommy Orange represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
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- Summary
- "Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil then boil hot enough to burn through time and place and memory. We'll go back to where we came from, when we were people running from bullets at the end of that old world. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable, that we've been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people, modern and relevant, only to die in the grass wearing feathers." 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 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; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very 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--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. There There 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. A glorious, unforgettable debut"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 436 pages (large print)
- Note
- Title from web page
- Isbn
- 9780525633013
- Label
- There there : a novel
- Title
- There there
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Tommy Orange
- Subject
-
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueAddiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueCity life
- trueCulture conflict
- trueFamily reunions
- Fiction
- trueIndians of North America
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Fiction
- trueIndians of North America -- Urban residence
- Interpersonal relations
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Large type books
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Powwows -- Fiction
- Powwows
- truePowwows
- trueOakland, California
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil then boil hot enough to burn through time and place and memory. We'll go back to where we came from, when we were people running from bullets at the end of that old world. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable, that we've been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people, modern and relevant, only to die in the grass wearing feathers." 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 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; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very 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--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. There There 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. A glorious, unforgettable debut"--
- Summary
- A novel which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide, follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow
- Award
-
- ALA Notable Book, 2019.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2018.
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2018.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2018.
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2018.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2018
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, 2019.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10664761
- Cataloging source
- TEFBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1982-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Orange, Tommy
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3615.R32
- LC item number
- T48 2018b
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 810
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Indians of North America
- Interpersonal relations
- Powwows
- Indians of North America
- Interpersonal relations
- Powwows
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- There there : a novel, Tommy Orange
- Note
- Title from web page
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21430061
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 436 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780525633013
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1028238031
- Label
- There there : a novel, Tommy Orange
- Note
- Title from web page
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21430061
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 436 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780525633013
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1028238031
Subject
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueAddiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueCity life
- trueCulture conflict
- trueFamily reunions
- Fiction
- trueIndians of North America
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Fiction
- trueIndians of North America -- Urban residence
- Interpersonal relations
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Large type books
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Powwows -- Fiction
- Powwows
- truePowwows
- trueOakland, California
Genre
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Fiction
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
Included in
- truePEN/Hemingway Award
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2019
- trueBest Fiction A-Z 2018
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2018
- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2018 Fiction
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2018
- trueLoan Stars Favourites: 2018
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2018
- trueRecommended by Jessica Lin
- trueRecommended by Kaitlin Conner
- trueSchool Library Journal's Adult Books 4 Teens: 2018
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
- Award
- ALA Notable Book, 2019.
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2018.
- Award
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2018.
- Award
- Library Journal Best Books, 2018.
- Award
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2018.
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2018
- Award
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, 2019.
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