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"Powerful. . . . There There has so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it's a revelation." --The New York Times

"With a literary authority rare in a debut novel, it places Native American voices front and center before readers' eyes." --NPR/Fresh Air

"An astonishing literary debut." --Margaret Atwood

"Masterful. . . . White-hot. . . Devastating." --The Washington Post

"Pure soaring beauty." --The New York Times Book Review

"Stunning." --The Boston Globe

"Brilliantly, furiously, magnificently, tragically, the story of America." --Elle

"Heartbreaking." --Esquire

"Electrifying." --Entertainment Weekly

"Brilliant, propulsive." --People

"Exquisite. . . . [An] exceptional debut. . . . Sublimely render[s] the truth of experiences that are passed over." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Mr. Orange's sparkling debut is not merely a literary triumph but a cultural and political one, too. It is a work of defiance and recovery." --The Economist

"Powerful. . . . As contemporary, tragic, and American as a breaking news alert." --The Christian Science Monitor

"Stunning." --Mother Jones

"How do you rewrite the story of a people? This question shapes Tommy Orange's sorrowful, beautiful debut novel. . . . Even in its tragic details, it is lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy." --The Guardian

"Gripping. . . . Unforgettable. . . . There There paints a vivid portrait of American lives few readers have ever known." --Bustle

"Reader, I must confirm: There There really is an extremely good book. . . . This is a trim and powerful book, a careful exploration of identity and meaning in a world that makes it hard to define either. Go ahead and go there there." --Constance Grady, Vox

"This is the kind of novel you finish and immediately need your book club to read so you can talk about it with other people. . . . It's also a powerful reminder of the ability of narrative to move minds." --GOOP

"Staggering. . . . Expertly rendered. . . . Orange successfully refutes the idea of a monolithic Native American identity." --Buzzfeed

"As funny as it is heartbreaking, tracking the multigenerational story of twelve Native Americans with themes of violence, identity, and despair." --PopSugar

"Orange's novel is one of healing, pulling together the intimacies of family, community, history, and violence." --The Rumpus

"An ambitious and galvanizing novel. . . . It's somehow a page-turner at the same time, propelled by the incandescent energy of Orange's prose." --Thrillist

"Bursting with talent and big ideas... Funny and profane and conscious of the violence that runs like a scar through American culture." --The Seattle Times

"[A] smashing debut. . . . Urgent. . . . The voices are dynamic, varied and very much of the moment, a chorus of American Indian voices coming straight from the city." --The Dallas Morning News

"Compulsively readable. . . . A dazzlingly intricate narrative that marries the personal and the ancestral. . . . A masterful work." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Searing. . . . There There finds satisfying richness in the minutiae of its characters' lives--their daily victories and losses, enduring frustrations, acts of tenderness, and senses of wonder." --The Austin Chronicle

"[Orange] writes with such finely honed literary craft that the book fairly begs to be read more than once. . . . It is gritty as well as beautiful, poetic; it is shocking, sometimes very amusing, often emotionally gut-punching, and rife with unsentimental insight." --Santa Fe New Mexican

"Orange's book is truly a page turner filled with multi-generational accounts of violence, recovery, memory, identity, beauty, and even a little despair. It's a book where you as the reader can't put down until you finish it with both a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of anticipation of what could happen next." --Lakota Country Times

"This is not just a novel. It's a carefully, beautifully crafted speech into a megaphone, telling stories of real, contemporary Native life in a specific place. . . . It offers a glimpse of an interconnected life, a world in which small stones don't just sink to the bottom of the sea but changes tides." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)

"Bold and engrossing. . . . There is hope in this book, hope in the strength of stories told and stories that are finally heard. . . . The wonder of this accomplished debut is the way in which he has got under his characters' skins, allowing them to speak for themselves. . . . This is a powerful novel of pain and possibility." --Financial Times

"Welcome to a brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American Fiction. There There is a comic vision haunted by profound sadness. Tommy Orange is a new writer with an old heart." --Louise Erdrich

"There There drops on us like a thunderclap; the big, booming, explosive sound of twenty-first century literature finally announcing itself. Essential." --Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

"There There is a miraculous achievement, a book that wields ferocious honesty and originality in service of telling a story that needs to be told. This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging." --Omar El Akkad, author of American War

"There There is an urgent, invigorating, absolutely vital book by a novelist with more raw virtuosic talent than any young writer I've come across in a long, long time." --Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus