Lit in Translation

There There

There There

Tommy Orange (born 1982)

English editions

Written in English

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Oakland, California, is home to the urban Native Americans whose lives this book follows, each from their own point of view. Jacquie Red Feather, sober again, is going to see the three grandsons she has never met. Dene Oxendene, mourning an uncle, hopes to make a documentary. Orvil, fourteen, learned traditional dancing from YouTube clips and will dance in public for the first time. Daniel Gonzales makes toy-like plastic weapons with a 3-D printer and keeps writing emails to his dead brother. These and other lives converge on one day at the Big Oakland Powwow, where the history they share and what each of them has riding on the event come to a head.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Set in
United States
First published
2018
Author's age
36 when first published
ISBN

9780525520375 (Knopf, United States)

9781787300354 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)

9780525436140 (Vintage, United States)

9781784707972 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

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