- Description
- xi, 315 pages : genealogical table; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
- Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger brother, Lony, suffering from PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals that he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her wounded family.
- Subject
- United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) > Fiction
- Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864 > Fiction
- Generational trauma > Fiction
- Mass shootings > Fiction
- Conflict of generations > Fiction
- Epigenetics > Fiction
- Off-reservation boarding schools > Fiction
- Indians of North America > Fiction
- Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864
- Massacre de Sand Creek, Col., 1864 > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Traumatisme intergénérationnel > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Épigénétique > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Meurtre multiple > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Conflit de générations > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Internats pour Autochtones > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Indians of North America
- Native Americans > North America > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Novels
- Social problem fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Romans.
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
- ISBN
- 9780593318256
- 0593318250
- 9780593318263 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023016049
- OCLC
- YBP 2023016049
- Author
Orange, Tommy, 1982- author.
- Title
Wandering stars / Tommy Orange.
- Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024]
- Edition
First edition.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Added Author
Sequel to: Orange, Tommy, 1982- There there.
- Other Form:
Online version: Orange, Tommy, 1982- Wandering stars First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024 9780593318263 (DLC) 2023016050