MIDTOWN March 2026 — There There, by Tommy Orange

📖 Why this book? 📖

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A WONDROUS AND SHATTERING AWARD-WINNING NOVEL THAT 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.

A contemporary classic, this "astonishing literary debut" (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale)
"places Native American voices front and center" (NPR/Fresh Air).

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

REVIEWS

• Kirkus Reviews * Publisher's Weekly
• Library Journal.
  AWARDS
  National Book Critics Circle Award
  Pulitzer Prize Finalist
  Notable Books for Adults
  10 Best Books of 2018

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💠 What can I expect? 💠

We will meet in-person after hours in Time Tested Books. Front door will be unlocked, and staff will point the way.

💬 We catch up socially;
🧊 we recommend a book or author, and
📕 we start our book discussion at 7pm.

👜 WHAT DO I BRING? 👜

◾️A snack or drink to share
◾️$5 (cash or Venmo *8913)
◾️And you could bring your book 😄

✴️ Event Fee Details ✴️

The $5 is split between our access to this Meetup platform and our access to the meeting location.

You can venmo me (https://venmo.com/u/Rebecca-Bon *8913) or bring cash.

However❕We would never want you to miss a book club discussion because of the $5, so please message me if you have any concerns

Thanks, and see you all soon!

📚 ** BOOK SUMMARY ** 📚

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. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and 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

A book with "so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it's a revelation" (The New York Times). It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down - full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.