5/18/2023 0 Comments There there author![]() I think we get a lot of voices and we have to try to make sense of it. "I like shifting perspectives, I think it's true to life. "I just like those kinds of novels," Orange explained. The characters range in age from young to old. "There There" is a polyphonic novel featuring the voices of 12 working-class Native Americans living in Oakland, California. That single sort of container for the novel is what I thought of in that single moment," he said. ![]() ![]() ![]() At that moment, the idea to have a story about urban Indians where all their lives converge at a shooting at a powwow at the Oakland Coliseum. I’d been working in the urban Indian community in Oakland for many years and I knew I wanted to write a novel. And on the drive, the idea just popped right into my head. "I had just found out I was going to be a father. He's also the author of one of the most critically-acclaimed novels of 2018, "There There." Orange's debut novel has shown up on several "Best of 2018" lists.Īs Orange told WPR's "BETA," he remembers exactly where he was when he came up with the idea for "There There" at the end of 2010. ![]() Tommy Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. ![]()
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