There There

by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes)

Paperback, 2019

LCC

PS3615 R32 T48 2018

Description

Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. 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 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 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… (more)

Publication

New York: Vintage (2018)

Awards

National Book Award (Longlist — Fiction — 2018)
Dublin Literary Award (Shortlist — 2020)
Pulitzer Prize (Finalist — Fiction — 2019)
Audie Award (Finalist — 2019)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — 2018)
The Morning News Tournament of Books (Quarterfinalist — 2019)
Indies Choice Book Award (Winner — 2019)
Aspen Words Literary Prize (Longlist — 2019)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Shortlist — Fiction — 2019)
PEN/Hemingway Award (Winner — 2019)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (Fiction — 2019)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (High School — 2021)
Golden Poppy Book Award (Winner — Fiction — 2018)
BookTube Prize (Finalist — Fiction — 2019)
Writers' Prize (Shortlist — 2019)
Boston Globe Best Book (Fiction — 2018)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Debut Fiction — 2018)
Readers Retreat (Featured — 2024)
Notable Books List (Fiction — 2019)
LibraryReads (Monthly Pick — June 2018)
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