About this Event
**PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THESE GUIDELINES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO CHANGING COVID-19 REQUIREMENTS**
Join on Wednesday, March 6th at 6PM as we welcome bestselling author, , to discuss on a live B&N podcast taping! This new novel follows several generations of a Native American family as they try to build lives beyond the cruelty and violence of American institutions.
Tommy will be in conversation with bestselling author, , and B&N Editorial Director and host of B&N's podcast, Miwa Messer, for this special event.
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**Due to Covid-19, masks are strongly recommended.**
To make this event safe and enjoyable for all attendees, please read the below guidelines ahead of buying a ticket, so you know what to expect on the day. To avoid disappointment, we must stress that there will be no access to the event for non-ticketholders.
- Barnes & Noble reserves the right to make new rules and orders in its sole discretion with regard to COVID-19 at any time and any person not abiding by the Barnes & Noble directives will be refused entrance or directed to leave the premises.
Book Admission - $31.62 (Admission + one copy of + 5-cent bag fee): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: a ticket PER PERSON includes:
- One copy of .
- Admission to the event space for the Talk/Q&A and signing line with , , and Miwa Messer.
$5 Gift Card Admission - $5.00 (Admission + one $5 B&N gift card): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:
- One $5 B&N gift card.
- Admission to the event space for the Talk/Q&A and signing line with , , and Miwa Messer.
Tommy will pose for photos. A B&N staff member will be on-hand to take your photo.
Tommy will sign and personalize (name only) copies of and his other titles.
Due to Covid-19, masks are strongly recommended.
Any gifts for the author will be collected prior to the signing line.
Due to health and safety and space limitations, those without a ticket will not be permitted into the event space.
Please arrive by 6:00 PM in order to secure your seat in the event space. Late arrivals may only have access to standing room and may not have the opportunity to meet the author.
No large bags will be permitted into the event.
No memorabilia will be signed at the event.
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- Have not had any contact in the last 14 days with a confirmed COVID-19 patient.
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- At the time of the event, have not experienced in the last 72 hours any body temperature above 100 degrees Fahrenheit or any new symptoms associated with COVID-19. People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. People with these symptoms may have COVID-19: fever or chills; cough; shortness of breath or difficulty breathing; fatigue; muscle or body aches; headache; new loss of taste or smell; sore throat; congestion or runny nose; nausea or vomiting; and/or diarrhea.
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ABOUT :
The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.
"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.” —Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez
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, an 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 institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger brother, Lony, suffering from PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals that he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her wounded family.
Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is piercing in its poetry, sorrow, and rage and is a devastating indictment of America’s war on its own people.
ABOUT :
TOMMY ORANGE is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. His first book, There There, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. He lives in Oakland, California.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Barnes & Noble, 33 East 17th Street, New York, United States
USD 5.00 to USD 31.62