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There There


A General Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Native American Fiction,
  • Multi-POV,
  • Contemporary Fiction
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • A chorus of Native American voices in urban Oakland
  • Multi-perspective novels where lives collide at a single event
  • Stories balancing humor, pain, and urgent social commentary
Publisher Description

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 places Native American voices front and center.

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.

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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