Beauty and despair woven into their history, twelve multigenerational urban Native Americans find ways to live in Tommy Orange’s There There. For private reasons they each attend the Big Oakland Powwow, converging and colliding that fateful day. Tommy Orange discusses writing characters not often written, and writing with the reader in mind.
Photos by Christopher Ho.
Tommy Orange: There There
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