Tommy Orange Traces Indigenous Trauma and Triumph

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Tommy Orange has written a second novel. Although technically a sequel, you can easily read Wandering Stars without having experienced There There. But you should read at least one. Or both. Oh to heck with it, we love Tommy Orange and we will read anything he writes. He is incredibly talented. And we pair him with Birchbark Books & Native Arts, a bookstore that is a beloved Twin Cities landmark, while also serving the national and international Indigenous community. Tune in to find out how. Books mentioned in this week’s episode: There There by Tommy Orange Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone James by Percival Everett Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich The Round House by Louise Erdrich The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich The Iliad translated by Emily Wilson The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy Native Love Jams by Tashia Hart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.3	Welcome back, Bookcasers. It is Thursday. Time for another edition of the bookcase with Kate and Charlie.
0:27.4	As I've reminded you again and again, if you're a frequent listener, I'm Charlie Gibson, the father part of this duo.
0:33.5	I am Kate Gibson, and if you were reading the bookcase like a book, we have just flipped over to page 101.
0:39.0	This is our 101st episode of the bookcase, and we're glad you stayed with us, or we're glad you have introduced yourself to us.
0:46.5	Either one, you're welcome.
0:47.6	Yeah, as we said last week on our 100th, we weren't sure that there would even be number two, much less 101.
0:55.5	And we do have a wonderful author today.
0:57.9	Tommy Orange is probably as eloquent a spokesperson for the Native American community in novel form as exists today.
1:06.6	He and Louise Erdrick probably are the two really prominent Native American authors. And his new book
1:13.3	is Wandering Stars, which is really a companion piece to his earlier book, There There, which was
1:19.3	published a number of years ago. This is our 101st, but it's also the first conversation with
1:24.7	an author of which I was not a part. We had scheduled and rescheduled
1:29.1	talking to Tommy Orange and we didn't want to cancel it. And just before the conversation with him,
1:35.1	my wife, Kate's mother, fell and broke her hip. So she was in surgery at the time Kate alone
1:40.9	talked to Tommy Orange. And I'm so sorry I missed the conversation. Yeah, what a
1:45.2	wonderful author. I fell in love with There There when I read it. And this, as I say, is a, it really
1:51.3	picks up exactly where They're There left off. But that does not mean you have to have read
1:55.1	There There to Like Wandering Stars. In some ways, their focus is different. They're There is almost
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