![]() The novel starts out with a two page very short summary of 12 characters, giving the reader a little information about each, but avoids anything that might be a spoiler in the stories to come. ![]() This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and not belonging.” “ There There is a miraculous achievement, a book that wields ferocious honesty and originality in service of telling a story that needs to be told. ![]() The Egyptian-Canadian novelist Omar Al Akkad who won the 2021 Scottiabank Giller Prize for his refugee tale What Strange Paradise, a book that examines the confluence of war, migration and a sense of settlement, raising questions of indifference and powerlessness, had this to say: The author is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, born and raised in Oakland, California. There There by Tommy Orange was lent to me by a friend and was a debut novel that made a significant splash when it was published in 2018.
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