Tommy Orange
Adult
Twelve urban Native voices converge on the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie, Dene, fourteen-year-old Orvil, and others are connected in ways they do not yet know — a chorus about city life, inheritance, and a day that will not stay in the past.
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Urban Native Oakland, twelve voices, one powwow. The book refuses the reservation postcard and lets the city be Native land too.
Adult. Readers who want contemporary Indigenous fiction that is not a history lesson. The ending is a mass-casualty event.
What does “there” mean for someone who is Native and urban at once?
After a chapter, name which voice you trusted, and which one the book asked you not to.
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