Wandering Stars

<p><b>Tommy Orange</b> was born and raised in Oakland California. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. <br><br>Tommy currently teaches at the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. <i>There There</i> is his first novel.</p>|<p>Following generations of one family through almost two centuries of American history <i>Wandering Stars </i>traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather&#8217;s shooting in <i>There There</i>.<br><br>Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous a book piercing in its poetry sorrow and rage&#8212;a masterful follow-up to his already-classic first novel and a devastating indictment of America&#8217;s war on its own people.</p>|<i>There There</i> drops on us like a thunderclap: the big booming explosive sound of 21st-century literature finally announcing itself. Essential|Gripping... an astonishing literary debut!|A brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American fiction... a new writer with an old heart|A work of pure soaring beauty|How do you rewrite the story of a people? This question shapes Tommy Orange&#8217;s sorrowful beautiful debut novel. . . . Even in its tragic details it is lyrical and playful shaking and shimmering with energy