PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER - A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NOMINEE One of the Best Books of the Year:
The Washington Post, NPR,
Time,
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The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe "Powerful. . . .
There There has 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 "With a literary authority rare in a debut novel, it places Native American voices front and center before readers' eyes."
--NPR/Fresh Air "An astonishing literary debut."
--Margaret Atwood "Masterful. . . . White-hot. . . Devastating."
--The Washington Post "Pure soaring beauty."
--The New York Times Book Review "Stunning."
--The Boston Globe "Brilliantly, furiously, magnificently, tragically, the story of America."
--Elle "Heartbreaking."
--Esquire "Electrifying."
--Entertainment Weekly "Brilliant, propulsive."
--People "Exquisite. . . . [An] exceptional debut. . . . Sublimely render[s] the truth of experiences that are passed over."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Mr. Orange's sparkling debut is not merely a literary triumph but a cultural and political one, too. It is a work of defiance and recovery."
--The Economist
"Powerful. . . . As contemporary, tragic, and American as a breaking news alert."
--The Christian Science Monitor
"Stunning."
--Mother Jones "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."
--The Guardian
"Gripping. . . . Unforgettable. . . .
There There paints a vivid portrait of American lives few readers have ever known."
--Bustle "Reader, I must confirm:
There There really is an extremely good book. . . . This is a trim and powerful book, a careful exploration of identity and meaning in a world that makes it hard to define either. Go ahead and go there there."
--Constance Grady, Vox "This is the kind of novel you finish and immediately need your book club to read so you can talk about it with other people. . . . It's also a powerful reminder of the ability of narrative to move minds."
--GOOP "Staggering. . . . Expertly rendered. . . . Orange successfully refutes the idea of a monolithic Native American identity."
--Buzzfeed "As funny as it is heartbreaking, tracking the multigenerational story of twelve Native Americans with themes of violence, identity, and despair."
--PopSugar
"Orange's novel is one of healing, pulling together the intimacies of family, community, history, and violence."
--The Rumpus
"An ambitious and galvanizing novel. . . . It's somehow a page-turner at the same time, propelled by the incandescent energy of Orange's prose."
--Thrillist "Bursting with talent and big ideas... Funny and profane and conscious of the violence that runs like a scar through American culture."
--The Seattle Times "[A] smashing debut. . . . Urgent. . . . The voices are dynamic, varied and very much of the moment, a chorus of American Indian voices coming straight from the city."
--The Dallas Morning News
"Compulsively readable. . . . A dazzlingly intricate narrative that marries the personal and the ancestral. . . . A masterful work."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Searing. . . .
There There finds satisfying richness in the minutiae of its characters' lives--their daily victories and losses, enduring frustrations, acts of tenderness, and senses of wonder."
--The Austin Chronicle
"[Orange] writes with such finely honed literary craft that the book fairly begs to be read more than once. . . . It is gritty as well as beautiful, poetic; it is shocking, sometimes very amusing, often emotionally gut-punching, and rife with unsentimental insight."
--Santa Fe New Mexican
"Orange's book is truly a page turner filled with multi-generational accounts of violence, recovery, memory, identity, beauty, and even a little despair. It's a book where you as the reader can't put down until you finish it with both a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of anticipation of what could happen next."
--Lakota Country Times
"This is not just a novel. It's a carefully, beautifully crafted speech into a megaphone, telling stories of real, contemporary Native life in a specific place. . . . It offers a glimpse of an interconnected life, a world in which small stones don't just sink to the bottom of the sea but changes tides."
--The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Bold and engrossing. . . . There is hope in this book, hope in the strength of stories told and stories that are finally heard. . . . The wonder of this accomplished debut is the way in which he has got under his characters' skins, allowing them to speak for themselves. . . . This is a powerful novel of pain and possibility."
--Financial Times "Welcome to a brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American Fiction.
There There is a comic vision haunted by profound sadness. Tommy Orange is a new writer with an old heart."
--Louise Erdrich "
There There drops on us like a thunderclap; the big, booming, explosive sound of twenty-first century literature finally announcing itself. Essential."
--Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
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There There is a miraculous achievement, a book that wields ferocious honesty and originality in service of telling a story that needs to be told. This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging."
--Omar El Akkad, author of American War
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There There is an urgent, invigorating, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer I've come across in a long, long time."
--Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus
