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title: "There There: A novel Kindle Edition"
brand: "tommy orange"
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# There There: A novel Kindle Edition

**Brand:** tommy orange
**Price:** KSh4006
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- **What is this?** There There: A novel Kindle Edition by tommy orange
- **How much does it cost?** KSh4006 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    You'll Never Celebrate Thanksgiving Quite the Same After Reading this Wonderful Novel
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018*

I just finished "There There", by Tommy Orange and I’m so glad to have read it - though sometimes it was difficult:This book will make you sad - read it anyway.This book will make you mad - read it anyway.This book will remind you of the lies we were taught as children - read it to remember.This book will remind you not to tell those lies anymore - read it to know the truth.This book will make you smile – know hope.This book will ruin Thanksgiving for you - read it so you can re-think your future Thanksgivings."There There", (the title referring to an out-of-context quote by Gertrude Stein about Oakland, CA) is fascinating, heartbreaking, frustrating and ultimately hopeful. The novel is comprised of individual, but interconnected/interrelated stories by a dozen characters; their stories and actions will culminate at the “Big Oakland Powwow”. (There are some major coincidences – but just suspend your disbelief and let it go!) The section on Dene Oxendene, somewhat mirrors the premise: Dene wants to make a documentary film of various Native Americans talking about their life experiences of living in Oakland, and that is pretty much the description of this novel – plus some mysteries and some shocking action.Summing it up best, Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield’s Mother tells her that the world is made up of stories and that they honor their people by telling their stories. And that’s how Tommy Orange honors his people, and his readers, with these transforming and redemptive stories.

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    Confusing
  

*by S***D on Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2018*

This Canterbury Tales-style novel, in which a series of characters (all Native people) are introduced, and ultimately brought together at a modern Powwow, was strangely unsatisfying.  Attempts  to keep the characters straight made me feel as if I were suffering from attention deficit disorder;  just as I gained any sense of a newly-introduced player (and any investment in his survival) the narrative switched to someone new. (Loother, we hardly knew ye.) Everyone ends up at the Powwow. There is a lot of random gunfire. Many of our new-found friends end up shot, some fatally, but we don't get to know who survives.  ???However, if one steps outside the plot and listens to the voices of these wounded people, all trying to find some place to stand and build their lives, time spent with this book is not wasted.

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    There
  

*by K***C on Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2018*

When I first saw the title of this book, I read it as soothing words of comfort, but I had it totally wrong.  Taking the famous Gertrude Stein quote "There is no there there,"  Tommy Orange explains that this seeming indictment of Oakland, California as a featureless hole in the landscape is not what Stein meant.  Further reading of the quote proves she found her hometown unrecognizable as the place of her memory.  The entirety of the United States could be classified as such, given the effects of progress perpetuated on native Americans by colonizers.  Late in the book, the broken promises, actual crimes and genocide are related metaphorically through a story written by one of the characters.And what characters populate these pages.  There are approximately 12 main ones, each embodying a fact of urban Native American identity.  These complex relationships form a patchwork that make the outcome inevitable.  There is search for family, identity and place, many feeling marginalized and invisible in the urban setting they find themselves.  Earlier chapters provide character studies that present the players, their histories and motivations, so clearly the prose flows and pages fly by, followed by an almost cinematic speedup as the climax approaches.Full disclosure - I began this book several days ago employing the audible edition, but found it was too rich and full to continue that way and had to begin all over again with a print version.

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