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Wandering Stars

Wandering Stars

Summary

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK 2024
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024


'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

A heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations

Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people.

It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.

'No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy Orange' Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman
'A towering achievement’ New York Times
'As vital as air' Guardian

Reviews

  • A revelation
    New York Times

About the author

Tommy Orange

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, and was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.
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