There There
By Tommy Orange
304 pages
Orange's electrifying fiction debut probes the urban Native
American experience Oakland-style, in prose as rhythmic and seductive as a
drumbeat: "We stayed because the city sounds like a war.... The quiet of
the reservation, the side-of-the-highway towns, rural communities, that kind of
silence just makes the sound of your brain on fire that much more pronounced."
— Hamilton Cain
