Wandering Stars

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The heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations, from the author of New York Times bestseller There There Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of many generations of a Native American family, struggling to find ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope. Readers of Orange's classic debut There There will know some of these characters and will be eager to learn what happened to Orvil Red Feather after the Oakland Powwow. New readers will discover a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.

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A revelation * New York Times *
An emotionally incandescent and structurally riveting second novel Oranges work feels, to me, as vital as air * Guardian *
[Wandering Stars] weaves a tapestry of trauma down the decades Ultimately, the turns their stories takeare about healing, not catastrophemarrying eye-opening historical re-creation with gritty social realism * Observer *
A sweeping, centuries-spanning, intergenerational novel concerned with history, legacy and family Tommy Orange confronts difficult subjects in mellifluous prose He shows that storytelling is an intoxicant in itself, as powerful in its way as any substance * Times Literary Supplement *
A centuries-spanning epic of a Native family that manages to feel profoundly intimate * Vulture *
Outstanding . . . A dazzling work of literary fiction ... A novel about family, loss, history and addiction * Boston Globe *
A multilayered, blisteringly honest novel ... [Wandering Stars] undeniably soars * San Francisco Chronicle *
Wandering Stars probes the aftermath of atrocity, seeing history and its horrors as heritable . . . The reader can see what the characters cannot * New Yorker *
Varied and textured but also ruthlessly clear -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
Powerful and indelible ... A necessary story for everyone ... Wandering Stars 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, best selling author of Night of the Living Rez

Author Bio

Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. Orange's debut novel, There There, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, and received the 2019 American Book Award. Wandering Stars is his second book.