Wandering stars / Tommy Orange.
Material type: SoundSeries: There there ; 2Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, [2024]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 8 audio discs (9 hr. 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9780593824535
- 0593824539
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- Fiction
- Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction
- Generational trauma -- United States -- Fiction
- Epigenetics -- Fiction
- Conflict of generations -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Off-reservation boarding schools -- Fiction
- Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864 -- Fiction
- Mass shootings -- United States -- Fiction
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Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | New | FICTION ORANGE, TOMMY | Available | 33111010016364 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty." The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.
"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you." --Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There --warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts--asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts.
Read by a full cast [Christian Young, MacLeod Andrews, Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Charley Flyte, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Curtis Michael Holland, Alma Cuervo, Calvin Joyal, and Phil Ava].
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.