Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange - option 2 [ONLINE]
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Publisher's description: The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty." The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.
Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.
Note from Joan: Wandering Stars is both a prequel and a sequel to There There. Though it's helpful to know There There, Wandering Stars works as a stand-alone novel.
Reviews excerpts at Literary Hub: https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/wandering-stars/