Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction 2019 Finalist
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One of Barack Obama’s best books of 2018, the New York Times bestselling novel about contemporary America from a bold new Native American voice`A thunderclap’ Marlon James`Astonishing’ Margaret Atwood, via Twitter`Pure soaring beauty’ Colm ToibinJacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That’s why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle’s death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and Opal came to watch her boy Orvil dance.
All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand. All of them are here for the celebration that is the Big Oakland Powwow. But Tony Loneman is also there.
And Tony has come to the Powow with darker intentions. `An exhilarating, polyphonic debut novel… Dazzling’ Daily Telegraph`Lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy…
Orange creates beauty out of tragedy’ Guardian`Bold and engrossing… Orange has got under his characters’ skins, allowing them to speak for themselves’ Financial TimesA New York Times Top 10 Best Book 2018An Oprah Magazine Top 15 Best Book 2018Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019Winner of the Writer’s Center First Novel Award 2018