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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE• The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy…
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His first novel, There There, made a strong impression on me. This one is more powerful still. Even if you have learned about the Sand Creek Massacre, the forced assimilation of Native Americans including the horrors at Indian boarding schools, and even if you’re familiar with the concept of intergenerational trauma, such “knowledge” hardly prepares you for the emotional wallop of this novel.
Orange offers vitally alive characters, starting with 19th-century Cheyenne survivor Jude Star and continuing to his present day descendants of the Red Feather/Bear Shield families as they persist through disaster, resilience, joy, and bafflement.
Through the author’s…
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