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Sparknotes there there tommy orange9/8/2023 ![]() ![]() There, There has been getting a lot of positive press. It’s about the many ways they have lived before they got there. This book is not about the violent ending where the story of the twelve disparate Native American characters comes together. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable, the fact we’ve been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people, modern and relevant, alive, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.” (141) Their sound will break water in our bodies, tear sound itself, rip our lives in half. Later, in an interlude, he reminds you what to look for as the climactic powwow approaches: Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.” (10) The Europeans who ‘settled’ the land “fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Orange tells you this in the non-fiction prologue to the book where he describes what it’s like to be a Native American today. The best way to understand the ending of There, There, Tommy Orange’s new novel, is to remember that the bullets were always coming.
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