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A powerful multi-generational story of Native Americans in Oakland, converging at a powwow with themes of identity and violence.
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A powerful multi-generational story of Native Americans in Oakland, converging at a powwow with themes of identity and violence.
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"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. The...
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Some sexual content and intimacy; sexual assault referenced in backstory
Violence & gore
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Mass shooting with deaths and injuries; historical and street violence
Profanity
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Frequent strong profanity throughout multiple narrators
Substance use
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Alcoholism and addiction central; sobriety struggles; drug use
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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Brief cultural and spiritual elements tied to powwow tradition
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central focus on Native identity, colonialism, and urban Indigenous life
Self-harm / suicide
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Brief references to despair and self-destructive impulses
Abuse & suffering
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Domestic violence, sexual assault, child neglect, historical trauma
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