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    Tommy Orange

    Jun 13, 2018 4 minutes

    whose debut novel, There There, was published in June by Knopf.

    INTRODUCED BY

    Claire Vaye Watkins author of two books, including the novel Gold Fame Citrus, published by Riverhead Books in 2015.

    The first thing one not ices about , Tommy Orange’s debut novel, is its voice, or rather its voices. Orange is also a composer, which will come as no surprise to anyone who reads this symphony of a novel. Orange’s book sings of urban Indians across Oakland, California, and across time, so that the howitzers mowing down Cheyenne and Arapaho at the Sand Creek Massacre rhyme with the 3-D printed guns a scrum of boys plans

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