![]() “Silence is not just silence but is not speaking up.” “The problem with believing is you have to believe that believing will work, you have to believe in belief.” “She told me the world was made of stories, nothing else, just stories, and stories about stories.” ![]() And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss. ![]() There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will perform in public for the very first time. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. It’s “the year’s most galvanizing debut novel” ( Entertainment Weekly).Īs we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow – some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent – momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. ![]() ![]() Tommy Orange’s “groundbreaking, extraordinary” ( The New York Times) There There is the “brilliant, propulsive” ( People Magazine) story of 12 unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, who converge and collide on one fateful day. ![]()
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