About this Event
Join us at Whitty Books for Native American Lit Book Club as we dive into Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange.
From the publisher, Penguin Random House:
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Pr*son castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, and evangelical Pr*son 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 instutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the familiy 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.
Our friends at Whitty Books have WANDERING STARS in stock! All are welcome.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Whitty Books, 2306 East Admiral Boulevard, Tulsa, United States
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