There There : A Novel

Resource Information

The work There There : A Novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

There There : A Novel

Title remainder

A Novel

Statement of responsibility

Tommy Orange

Creator

• Orange, Tommy, 1982-

Contributor

• cloudLibrary

Subject

• Audiobooks
• Collective memory -- Fiction
• Downloadable audio books
• Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
• Identity (philosophical concept) -- Fiction
• Indians of North America -- Fiction
• Mass shootings -- Fiction
• Alcoholics -- Fiction
• Powwows -- Fiction
• Political fiction

Genre

• Downloadable audio books
• Fiction
• Political fiction
• Audiobooks

Language

eng

Summary

Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking?Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling 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 back together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, 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.Here is a voice we have never heard?a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force. Tommy Orange writes of the plight of the urban Native American, the Native American in the city, in a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. An unforgettable debut, destined to become required listening in schools and universities across the country

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Cataloging source

MnSpTMCL

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Format of music

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Music parts

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PerformerNote

Darrell Dennis, Shawn Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo, Kyla Garcia

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