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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

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English
Harvill
10 June 2025
The heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations, longlisted for the Booker Prize

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by an evangelical prison guard, who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial school, dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture and identity.

Years later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to this school, where he is brutalised by the same man. Together with fellow student Opal Viola, Charles envisions a future far away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

Full of poetry music, rage and love, Wandering Stars, looks to the past and future across the generations of the Bear Shield and Red Feather family, finding their way through displacement and pain, towards home and hope.
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Imprint:   Harvill
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   236g
ISBN:   9781529930344
ISBN 10:   1529930340
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. Orange's debut novel, There There, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, and received the 2019 American Book Award. Wandering Stars is his second book.

Reviews for Wandering Stars

A revelation * New York Times * An emotionally incandescent and structurally riveting second novel… Orange’s work feels, to me, as vital as air * Guardian * [Wandering Stars] weaves a tapestry of trauma down the decades… Ultimately, the turns their stories take…are about healing, not catastrophe…marrying eye-opening historical re-creation with gritty social realism * Observer * A sweeping, centuries-spanning, intergenerational novel concerned with history, legacy and family… Tommy Orange confronts difficult subjects in mellifluous prose… He shows that storytelling is an intoxicant in itself, as powerful in its way as any substance * Times Literary Supplement * A centuries-spanning epic of a Native family that manages to feel profoundly intimate * Vulture * Outstanding . . . A dazzling work of literary fiction ... A novel about family, loss, history and addiction * Boston Globe * A multilayered, blisteringly honest novel ... [Wandering Stars] undeniably soars * San Francisco Chronicle * Wandering Stars probes the aftermath of atrocity, seeing history and its horrors as heritable . . . The reader can see what the characters cannot * New Yorker * Varied and textured but also ruthlessly clear -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Powerful and indelible ... A necessary story for everyone ... Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you -- Morgan Talty, best selling author of Night of the Living Rez Hold this novel to your heart because [it] is that magnificent -- Richard Van Camp, author of The Moon of Letting Go


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