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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.
There There drops on us like a thunderclap: the big, booming, explosive sound of 21st-century literature finally announcing itself. Essential -- Marlon James, Booker Prize winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings Gripping... an astonishing literary debut! -- Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) A brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American fiction... a new writer with an old heart -- Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Night Watchman A work of pure, soaring beauty -- Colm Tóibín, bestselling author of Brooklyn How do you rewrite the story of a people? This question shapes Tommy Orange’s sorrowful, beautiful debut novel. . . . Even in its tragic details, it is lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy * Guardian *
