Tommy Orange Traces Indigenous Trauma and Triumph

Tommy Orange has written a second novel. Although technically a sequel, you can easily read Wandering Stars without having experienced There There. But you should read at least one. Or both. Oh to heck with it, we love Tommy Orange and we will read anything he writes. He is incredibly talented. And we pair him with Birchbark Books & Native Arts, a bookstore that is a beloved Twin Cities landmark, while also serving the national and international Indigenous community. Tune in to find out how.

Books mentioned in this week’s episode:

• There There by Tommy Orange
• Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
• The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone
• James by Percival Everett
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• The Iliad translated by Emily Wilson
• The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy
• Native Love Jams by Tashia Hart

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