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A live, lively librarian-led book club discussion about a wide range of titles and genres. Register here for EVENING ZOOM or on Tuesday, November 19, for DAYTIME IN PERSON! Registration required.
ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB
If you like everything bagels, you'll probably like The Everything Book Club. We read the best of fiction and non-fiction, literary novels, mysteries, historical fiction, memoirs and more.
We generally meet on the third week of the month at two convenient times and venues: Evening Zoom on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Daytime in Person at 1 p.m. in the Tower Room on the 2nd floor. Registration is required.
GET THE BOOK
Click on the links to order the book in print, or as an e-book or e-audiobook on Libby/OverDrive. You can also ask for a copy at the circulation desk in the Main Branch.
ABOUT THE BOOK
"There, There." A New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Award. A propulsive, poignant thriller about 12 very different Native Americans headed to the Big Pow Wow in Oakland, California, told in their own distinctive voices.
"Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities....Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle's death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American--grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism."—Knopf/Penguin Random House
"An ambitious meditation on identity and its broken alternatives, on myth filtered through the lens of time and poverty and urban life, on tradition all the more pressing because of its fragility, it is as if he seeks to reconfigure Oakland as a locus of desire and dreams, to remake the city in the likeness of his large and fascinating set of characters."—The New York Times
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tommy Orange is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California. He is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. His second book is "Wandering Stars."
