Tommy Orange on "There, There" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Tommy Orange on "There, There" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Rich Fahle.
“This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book-a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes landfall.” -Omar El Akkad, author of American War
Tommy Orange’s “groundbreaking, extraordinary” (The New York Times) There There is the “brilliant, propulsive” (People Magazine) story of twelve unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, who converge and collide on one fateful day. It’s “the year’s most galvanizing debut novel” (Entertainment Weekly).
As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow-some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent-momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through RUclips videos and will to perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.
There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It’s “masterful . . . white-hot . . . devastating” (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to put down. Here is a voice we have never heard-a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. This is the book that everyone is talking about right now, and it’s destined to be a classic.
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I'm Canadian and teaching this novel in English First Peoples 12, which is an equivalent to the English 12 course. I'm in the middle of teaching the course for the 4th time, so have come to know the novel quite well. It is incredible, and a feat of writing that I get entirely wrapped up in. I read a lot of it aloud to students so they can hear the craft of the author's often very poetic phrasing and complex sentence structures. I also really appreciate the structure and flow of the book itself - it goes back and forth in time, from many perspectives; even some moments are re-written through different characters eyes. Students get SO much from his characters, especially responding to Orvil, Daniel, Dene and Edwin with all their identity-through-technology experiences. My own favourite chapter is Thomas Frank, who's also my favourite character, along with Tony and Opal and Orvil. I could go on and on; I cannot say enough about the strength and craftmanship of this novel and look forward to his future writing.
tommy .i just finished reading ..there.there ..i had so many emotions ..sadness ..angry ....confused ..i really love the book ..i hope to read more of your writings ....never stop
Drop dead killer book....great,great writer, seems to really have his head on straight.....instant classic...
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Hi Tommy, I have received your book from my son and just start reading (in Dutch👍). Anf are very excited to finish it. And become curious who Tommy Orange is, so see your interview. Now I will read the book in the good way, thank you to make things clear! And thanks to be an inspiration. 🙏
Thoroughly enjoying this book now. Keep on writing Tommy.
I love how he shatters one of America's most dangerous myths within the first 5 pages.
I liked the book until the end. Don’t understand why he chose that ending.
Please correct me if my thinking is misguided but... Native American people have survived being targeted with genocide, poverty, racism for generations.
I want to learn and be inspired to do the same - we’re all being targeted now with coronavirus, voter suppression, trying to abolish Roe v Wade, trying to abolish Obamacare. I really want to read There There.
This interviewer has no idea what he's talking about. He's so lost. PLease let more effective journalist interview Tommy.
People like Peter Okonkwo of the podcast P English Literature is an amazing interviewer, he will make a great show host and fit to interview him. He's interviewed a lot of authors. I'm a huge fan of his show.