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Biographical note
Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. Orange's debut novel, There There, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, and received the 2019 American Book Award. Wandering Stars is his second book.A revelation
New York Times
An emotionally incandescent and structurally riveting second novel… <b>Orange’s work feels, to me, as vital as air</b>
Guardian
[<i>Wandering Stars</i>] weaves a tapestry of trauma down the decades… Ultimately, the turns their stories take…are about healing, not catastrophe…marrying <b>eye-opening historical re-creation with gritty social realism</b>
Observer
<b>A sweeping, centuries-spanning, intergenerational novel</b> concerned with history, legacy and family… Tommy Orange confronts difficult subjects in mellifluous prose… He shows that storytelling is an intoxicant in itself, as powerful in its way as any substance
Times Literary Supplement
A centuries-spanning epic of a Native family that manages to feel <b>profoundly intimate</b>
Vulture
<b>Outstanding</b> . . . A <b>dazzling work</b> of literary fiction ... A novel about family, loss, history and addiction
Boston Globe
A <b>multilayered, blisteringly honest novel </b> ... [<i>Wandering Stars</i>] <b>undeniably soars</b>
San Francisco Chronicle
<i>Wandering Stars</i> probes the aftermath of atrocity, seeing history and its horrors as heritable . . . The reader can see what the characters cannot
New Yorker
<b>Varied and textured but also ruthlessly clear </b>
- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy,
<b>Powerful and indelible</b> ... <b>A necessary story for everyone</b> ... <i>Wandering Stars</i> blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is<b> a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you</b>
- Morgan Talty, best selling author of Night of the Living Rez,