Wandering stars / Tommy Orange.
2024
Fiction
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Author
Orange, Tommy, 1982- author.
Title
Wandering stars / Tommy Orange.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024]
Description
xi, 315 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue
Part One. Before (1924). Jude Star (Winter). Young ghosts
Life masks
A son
Into another life
Richard Henry Pratt and Charles Star (Spring). An honest lunatic
Over there
San Francisco
Nape
No better plan
Everything blue
Opal Viola (Summer). Bloom
Victoria Bear Shield (Fall). Victory!
Part Two. Aftermath (2018). How to fly
What were drugs
The other Fruitvale
The only thing alive
Superblood
Restoration
Who can say Indian?
The box
Double A
Birthday
The cut people
Blanx
Gray area
Rave
Alcatraz
Doubled up inside
Too many seasons
Just wait
Ocean Beach
The black blooms Part Three. Futures. Rehab
Dead letter mail.
Part One. Before (1924). Jude Star (Winter). Young ghosts
Life masks
A son
Into another life
Richard Henry Pratt and Charles Star (Spring). An honest lunatic
Over there
San Francisco
Nape
No better plan
Everything blue
Opal Viola (Summer). Bloom
Victoria Bear Shield (Fall). Victory!
Part Two. Aftermath (2018). How to fly
What were drugs
The other Fruitvale
The only thing alive
Superblood
Restoration
Who can say Indian?
The box
Double A
Birthday
The cut people
Blanx
Gray area
Rave
Alcatraz
Doubled up inside
Too many seasons
Just wait
Ocean Beach
The black blooms Part Three. Futures. Rehab
Dead letter mail.
Summary
"Colorado, 1864, Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison-castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in 'There There' -- warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts -- asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. 'Wandering Stars' is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts." -- Jacket flap.
Note
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Orange, Tommy, 1982- Wandering stars. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024
Call Number
Fiction
Language
English
ISBN
9780593318256 (hardcover)
0593318250 (hardcover)
9780593318263 (electronic book)
0593318250 (hardcover)
9780593318263 (electronic book)