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Starred Review on May 1, 2024 | Audio
Orange's second novel orbits the landscape from his unflinching debut, There There, mining Orvil Red Feather's lineage, beginning with his great-great-great-grandfather Jude Star, who narrowly escapes the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and is later imprisoned in Florida. The trauma inherited from these earliest relatives—notably, the bitter legacy of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School—reverberates throughout Orvil's unsettled life, which strains under the weight of addiction and gr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More