
Podcast: Ep478: Tommy Orange on His "There There" Sequel
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Tommy Orangeâs acclaimed debut novel, âThere Thereâ â one of the Book Reviewâs 10 Best Books of 2018 â centered on a group of characters who all converge on an Indigenous powwow in modern-day Oakland, Calif. His follow-up, âWandering Stars,â is both a prequel and a sequel to that book, focusing specifically on the character Orvil Red Feather and tracing several generations of his family through the decades before and after the events of âThere There.â This week, Orange visits the podcast to discuss âWandering Starsâ as well as the book he has read most in his life, Clarice Lispector's "The Hour of the Star." Orange explained how he decided to write a historical novel while sticking with the characters and story line from his earlier book. âI got drawn in by this part of history because it was so specific to my tribe,â Orange says. âI donât necessarily love reading historical fiction, but if itâs driven from the interior and itâs character driven, itâs compelling to me. So figuring out the types of humans they might have been or things they might have thought or felt, that was a way for me to try to figure out how to make them real. and thatâs sometimes on a sentence level and sometimes on a, like, what are their motivations or what are they doing in their day-to-day lives? What do they want?â
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