{"title":"Orange, Tommy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"wandering-stars-tommy-orange-hardcover","title":"Wandering Stars -- Tommy Orange, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003eMOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller \u003ci\u003eThere There \u003c\/i\u003e(\"Pure soaring beauty.\"\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review) \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, \u003ci\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/i\u003e blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.\" --Morgan Talty, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNight of the Living Rez\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in \u003ci\u003eThere There\u003c\/i\u003e--warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts--asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. \u003ci\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tommy Orange\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593318256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2023 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2024 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2024 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTOMMY ORANGE\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. 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