There There - PDF
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “places Native American voices front and center” (NPR/Fresh Air).
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism
A book with “so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation” (The New York Times).It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down--full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.
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A novel that grips your heart from the first page… and lingers long after you’ve turned the last.
12 voices - 12 struggles - One fateful gathering
Set on the gritty streets of Oakland, There There introduces us to 12 Native characters, each grappling with identity, trauma, and survival in the urban American landscape. From a 14-year-old boy secretly learning to dance in regalia to a recovering alcoholic searching for her long-lost daughter—they are all heading to the same place: the Big Oakland Powwow.
A robbery, a legacy, a collective wound that bleeds beneath the surface
Beneath the drumbeats and traditional songs, a dark plot brews—a robbery planned with 3D-printed guns, drones, and generations of inherited rage. It all explodes in a climax that is at once breathtaking, devastating, and eerily silent—as if the bullets also carry the weight of ancestors long silenced.
When identity is denied, can memory heal what’s left?
This isn’t just a story—it’s a call from a community erased from textbooks, a dream deferred by history’s cruelty. This book will have you questioning your own roots, and realizing, as the novel says: “We don’t have time. Time has us.”
A voice that slices like a scalpel—but gently sutures the wound
Tommy Orange, a proud Native writer, pens this story with rage, compassion, and the cadence of oral tradition. He doesn’t just narrate—he braids broken lives into a single thread of spirit and memory, binding it tightly around the reader’s heart.
Who is this for?
- Readers of deep, layered contemporary fiction
- Those interested in cultural identity, minority voices, and historical justice
- Anyone in need of a story that
quietly shatters you—and then stays
Read it with an open heart. You won’t forget it. Ever.
“The messy, dangling strands of our lives got pulled into a braid…”