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Join noted book discussion leader Judy Levin in a conversation about "Wandering Stars" by Tommy Orange.
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Join us in the Brenner Room for a discussion on Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, led by Judy Levin.
"Orange's second novel is both prequel and sequel to the striking There, There (2018) and a centuries-spanning novel that stands firmly on its own. Once again featuring several narrator-characters, it opens during ""America's longest war""—the 313 years of settlers' brutal attempts to annihilate the Native people who preceded them. The boy who will become Jude Star wakes to the sound of his camp's massacre, and escapes. In 1875, he's taken from Oklahoma to a ""prison-castle"" on the Florida coast; his jailer will one day teach his son at the Carlisle Indian School. We continue to meet Jude's inheritors (the provided family tree is key) and then it is 2018, and Jude's teenage great-great-great grandson Orvil is recovering from the climactic events of There There. Orvil's wicked pain, and increasing need for medication to numb it, lead to Sean, recuperating from injury himself, who has access to homemade painkillers. Orvil's grandmothers and brothers have struggles of their own. All this barely scratches the surface of Orange's tender yet eviscerating history of a family's survival—day to day, generation to generation—and their uneasy yet persistent belief in that survival. Their story, one character realizes, ""has to be lived in order to be told, it is the song being sung, the dancer in midair,"" and, indeed, there is so much life in this mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic novel." -- Annie Bostrom, Booklist
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