Let's Read Great Books/Pulitzer finalist/There There and Wandering Stars
Schedule
Fri Sep 27 2024 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm
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About this Event
Choose to read both novels, one or the other or a portion of both. Come to the meeting with whatever you have read. A presentation will be given by the host.
Goodreads Summary-
Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle's death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American--grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.Hailed as an instant classic, There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.
Goodreads Summary-
Wandering Stars
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There —winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American Book Award, and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2018— Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather’s shooting in There There.
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