A tender, shattering story of generations of a Native American family, struggling to find ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America’s war on its own people.
Readers of Orange’s classic debut There There will know some of these characters and will be eager to learn what happened to Orvil Red Feather after the Oakland Powwow. New readers will discover a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.
Wandering Stars was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024.
Tommy Orange
About the Author
Tommy Orange is an American novelist, born and raised in Oakland, California. He teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program in New MexicoThis centuries-spanning epic paints a vivid portrait of the Native American experience in a society that often fails to recognise the value of its Indigenous people
— The 2024 judges on Wandering Stars