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Orange, Tommy, 1982-

There there / Tommy Orange - First Vintage books edition - xii, 292 pages ; 21 cm

Reading group guide available at www.ReadingGroupCenter.com -- Back cover

Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. 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 together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance 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 unspeakable loss

ISBN: 0525436146 9780525436140 9781784707972 178470797X

Standard No.: 9780525436140

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB942798 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 019282297 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Indians of North America--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Ethnic identity--Fiction
Indians of North America--California--Oakland--Fiction
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Powwows--Fiction
Group identity--Fiction
Collective memory--Fiction
Documentary films--Production and direction--Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.
Recovering alcoholics--Fiction
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Mass shootings--Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Oakland (Calif.)--Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3615.R32 / T48 2019