The author’s debut novel, ‘There There,’ was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and his new novel revisits some of those characters.
Tommy Orange’s debut novel, ‘There There,’ was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and his new novel ‘Wandering Stars’ returns to some of the characters of the first. Tommy Orange’s debut novel, “There There,” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, earning acclaim for telling the rarely heard story of Native Americans living in urban America. The book followed residents of Oakland as they struggled with life and their sense of their Native identity.
Orange, who is Cheyenne and Arapaho, spoke recently by video about the new book and about the intersection of Native and American history. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Q. There’s so much ground covered in the first third of the book, were you tempted at all to write an epic at twice the length and really fill in those stories?
I do think it’s a completely different context than when “There There” came out, which felt like it took the world by surprise. Do you worry about authenticity and the perils of falling into performative aspects when telling your history in an entertaining way? A big part of what I wanted to get across in “Wandering Stars” is that it is truly epic what we have survived – decades and decades of this forced schooling and the erasure of our ways and languages. That we still have thriving communities all over the country who know who they are – that is not nothing.
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