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There There: A novel Audiobook
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “places Native American voices front and center” (NPR/Fresh Air).
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism
A book with “so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation” (The New York Times). It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down--full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.
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"There There is a miraculous achievement, a book that wields ferocious honesty and originality in service of telling a story that needs to be told. This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book – a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes landfall."
— Omar El Akkad, author of American War
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“A stereotype-busting multicast audiobook.”
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Bravura… There There has so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation… its appearance marks the passing of a generational baton.
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“Sweeping and subtle…pure soaring beauty.
— Colm Toibin, The New York Times -
A rush of intensity and fervor… Bursting with talent and big ideas… Funny and profane and conscious of the violence that runs like a scar through American culture.
— Jeff Baker, The Seattle Times -
A new kind of American epic... one that reflects his ambivalence and the complexity of [Orange's] upbringing.
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Masterful. White-hot. A devastating debut novel.
— Ron Charles, The Washington Post -
A gripping deep dive into urban indigenous community in California: an astonishing literary debut!
— Margaret Atwood, via Twitter -
“Welcome to a brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American Fiction. THERE THERE is a comic vision haunted by profound sadness. Tommy Orange is a new writer with an old heart.
— Louise Erdrich, Birchbark Books -
THERE THERE drops on us like a thunderclap; the big, booming, explosive sound of 21st century literature finally announcing itself. Essential.
— Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings -
There There is an urgent, invigorating, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer I've come across in a long, long time. Maybe ever. Tommy Orange is a stylist with substance, a showboater with a deeply moral compass. I want to call him heir to Gertrude Stein by way of George Saunders, but he is even more original than that. This book will make your heart swell.
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This is Tommy Orange. Remember his name. His book's gonna blow the roof off.
— Pam Houston -
A symphonic debut...Engrossing... There There introduces an exciting voice.
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"Commanding...The propulsion of both the overall narrative and its players are breathtaking as Orange unpacks how decisions of the past mold the present, resulting in a haunting and gripping story.
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Visceral... A chronicle of domestic violence, alcoholism, addiction, and pain, the book reveals the perseverance and spirit of the characters... Unflinching candor... Highly recommended.
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Kaleidoscopic... In this vivid and moving book, Orange articulates the challenges and complexities not only of Native Americans, but also of America itself.
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Awards
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A #1 Indie Next List selection
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New York Times bestseller
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Amazon Editor’s Top Pick of 2018 (So Far)
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Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction
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A June 2018 LibraryReads Pick
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A Paste Magazine Pick of the 10 Best Audiobooks of 2018
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Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
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An Audible Pick of the Month
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A 2018 LibraryReads Favorites of the Favorites selection
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A Washington Post Best Audiobook of 2018
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A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
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A 2019 Audie Award Finalist for Best Multi-Voiced Performance
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Finalist for the 2019 Indies Choice Book Award for Audiobook of the Year
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Winner of the 2019 Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year
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Finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2019
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Winner of Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
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Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2019
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Winner of Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
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Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2019
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Winner of Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
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Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2019
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Winner of Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
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Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2019
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Winner of Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
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Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2019
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Winner of Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
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Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2019
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Winner of Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
There There Listener Reviews
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Krista Reichard, 10/9/2020
About Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange is the author of several books, including There There, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2019 American Book Award. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He is a graduate from the MFA degree program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow.
About the Narrators
Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.
Alma Cuervo is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress and singer who has also performed in film and television. She holds an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, from which she graduated in 1976 alongside Meryl Streep. She starred in the role of Madame Morrible in the first national tour of Wicked.
Darrell Dennis is a native Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter and radio personality from the Secwepemc Nation in the interior of British Columbia. In addition to acting and comedy, Darrell is a writer whose works have been published by Playwrights Canada Press and Douglas & McIntyre Publishing. His short stories have been published in periodicals across Canada and the U.S. His first play, Trickster of Third Avenue East, was produced by Native Earth Performing Arts, which twice named Darrell their “Writer-in- Residence.” His semi-autobiographical one-man play, Tales of an Urban Indian, in which he explored themes of growing up as an indigenous First Nations Native American, was nominated for two Dora Awards and has been produced for multiple tours across Canada and the United States
Shaun Taylor-Corbett is an actor, singer, and writer. A graduate of the University of Delaware, he has television and Broadway credits, including the role of Sonny on Broadway in In the Heights. He also has off-Broadway credits including In the Heights and Altar Boyz.