--- product_id: 298719034 title: "There There: Tommy Orange" price: "5809 som" currency: KGS in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.kg/products/298719034-there-there-tommy-orange store_origin: KG region: Kyrgyzstan --- # 4.0/5 from 16.5K+ reviews Top 150 in Cultural & Political Fiction 905K+ sales rank There There: Tommy Orange **Price:** 5809 som **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 📖 Dive into the untold stories that everyone’s talking about — don’t miss the literary event of the year! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** There There: Tommy Orange - **How much does it cost?** 5809 som with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kg](https://www.desertcart.kg/products/298719034-there-there-tommy-orange) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Award-Worthy Impact:** A modern classic that sparks conversations on Native American history and contemporary struggles. - • **A Cultural Phenomenon:** Ranked #107 in Cultural Heritage Fiction, this novel is a must-read for socially conscious leaders. - • **Multi-Voiced Narrative:** Experience 12 distinct perspectives weaving a gripping story of identity, resilience, and urban Native life. - • **Raw & Honest Storytelling:** Unflinchingly explores themes of trauma, family, and survival with dark humor and emotional depth. - • **Engaging & Thought-Provoking:** Perfect for book clubs and professionals seeking meaningful, socially relevant literature. ## Overview There There by Tommy Orange is a critically acclaimed novel ranked in the top 150 for Cultural Heritage and Political Fiction. Featuring a multi-layered narrative from 12 Native American characters converging at the Big Oakland Powwow, it delivers a powerful exploration of identity, trauma, and resilience. With over 16,500 reviews averaging 4 stars, this book is a compelling, socially relevant read that resonates deeply with millennial professionals seeking authentic cultural insights. ## Description There There: Tommy Orange : Orange, Tommy: desertcart.co.uk: Books Review: Held my full attention - At the Big Oakland Powwow, there’s $50,000 of prize money and a plot to steal it. ‘There There’ tells the story of the robbery and why a handful of the Urban Native American attendees come to the event. Jacquie Red Feather travels from Phoenix with event emcee, Harvey, a man she hasn’t seen since he raped her forty-two years ago. A daughter was conceived during the rape and was given away for adoption when Jacquie was seventeen. The daughter, Blue, is head of the powwow committee. Jacquie had a second daughter, Jamie, a heroin addict who killed herself, leaving three sons. Jacquie’s younger half-sister, Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield, adopted Jacquie’s grandsons. Orvil (14) likes to dance in traditional Indian regalia. He takes his brothers, Loother (12) and Lony (10), to the powwow where he enters a dance competition. Opal goes to the powwow in secret to watch Orvil dance. Like Jacquie, Harvey is an alcoholic. He unwittingly fathered another child during a wild night with a white woman called Karen. The child, Edwin Black, was raised by Karen. Edwin is tech-savvy and holds a master’s degree in comparative literature. He successfully applies for a paid internship at the Oakland Indian Centre, which requires him to help organise the powwow. Karen’s boyfriend, Bill Davis, works in maintenance at the Oakland Coliseum – location of the Big Oakland Powwow. In her youth, Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield was in a relationship with Lucas who moved in with his sister, Norma, when he was dying of alcohol induced liver failure. Norma has a mixed-race son, Dene Oxendene, who, at the age of thirteen, inherited a camera from Lucas. Dene gets a $5,000 grant to document urban Indian stories and sets up a tent at the Big Oakland Powwow. Blue used to work with Maggie, sister of Calvin and Charles Johnson. Calvin lives with Maggie and her daughter Sonny. Blue gets Calvin a job finding younger vendors and supporting young Native artists and entrepreneurs at the powwow. Charles, his best friend Carlos and Calvin all sell weed for Octavio Gomez. Calvin is robbed of a consignment of weed he was supposed to sell. Charles and Carlos smoke theirs. All three are now in debt to Octavio. Octavio’s father died in a shooting avenging the theft of weed by Octavio’s brother, Junior, and uncle, Sixto. Octavio’s mother and brother were killed in a car accident when they were passengers in a drunk Sixto’s car. Octavio moved in with his grandmother, Josefina. Manny and Daniel Gonzales were cousins of Octavio. Their father was thrown out of the house following an attack on their mother, Sylvia. Manny was killed in a revenge shooting, leaving a young Daniel to support his mother. Daniel makes guns on a 3D printer. Octavio buys six guns for $5,000. Daniel gives $3,000 to Sylvia and spends the balance on a drone and VR glasses. Tony Loneman has foetal alcohol syndrome. His dad doesn’t know he exists and his mother is in jail. He lives with and cares for his grandmother, Maxine. He supports her with the proceeds of selling weed and cocaine for Octavio. Octavio persuades Tony, Calvin, Charles and Carlos to rob the powwow with him, using the 3D guns printed by Daniel. Octavio forbids his cousin Daniel to attend the powwow, but says he can use the drone to watch the robbery. In full Native regalia, Tony smuggles bullets into the powwow. An amazing climax to a gripping tale follows. Tommy Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Particularly in the epilogue and interlude, he outlines the shameful genocide and displacement of Native people. The story is told with sometimes shocking honesty and a clutch of fascinating, distinct voices. I feel the large cast of characters is handled well and the failure to resolve every issue by the end of the novel is necessary. Despite the clear search for identity and the challenges facing Native people, no solution is offered. Life rarely serves up a neat, happy ending. I enjoyed the dark humour: ‘He’s always feared he’ll find out that he’s smelled like piss and shit his whole life without knowing it, that everyone’s been afraid to tell him, like Kevin Farley from the fifth grade who ended up killing himself the summer of their junior year in high school when he found out.’ When you begin to wonder whether every Native person abuses alcohol, Harvey says: ‘There’s not some special relationship between Indians and alcohol. It’s just what’s cheap, available, legal. It’s what we have to go to when it seems like we have nothing else left.’ And probably my favourite quote from the book: ‘We don’t have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse. We shiver. We struggle for release, and then it pecks out our eyes and intestines for sustenance and we die the death of field mice.’ Review: building tension - A well written story about the complexities of relationships, in and alongside families. I learnt a lot about the history and current perspective of Native Americans and the struggle to be recognised and heard. I became involved ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 124,835 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 153 in Cultural Heritage Fiction 186 in Political Fiction (Books) 2,336 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (16,693) | | Dimensions | 13.13 x 1.52 x 20.27 cm | | Edition | Reprint | | ISBN-10 | 0525436146 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0525436140 | | Item weight | 1.05 kg | | Language | English | | Print length | 304 pages | | Publication date | 8 May 2019 | | Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | ## Images ![There There: Tommy Orange - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Jp2LD0EpL.jpg) ![There There: Tommy Orange - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51fgVKWgk4L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Held my full attention *by D***H on 23 July 2023* At the Big Oakland Powwow, there’s $50,000 of prize money and a plot to steal it. ‘There There’ tells the story of the robbery and why a handful of the Urban Native American attendees come to the event. Jacquie Red Feather travels from Phoenix with event emcee, Harvey, a man she hasn’t seen since he raped her forty-two years ago. A daughter was conceived during the rape and was given away for adoption when Jacquie was seventeen. The daughter, Blue, is head of the powwow committee. Jacquie had a second daughter, Jamie, a heroin addict who killed herself, leaving three sons. Jacquie’s younger half-sister, Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield, adopted Jacquie’s grandsons. Orvil (14) likes to dance in traditional Indian regalia. He takes his brothers, Loother (12) and Lony (10), to the powwow where he enters a dance competition. Opal goes to the powwow in secret to watch Orvil dance. Like Jacquie, Harvey is an alcoholic. He unwittingly fathered another child during a wild night with a white woman called Karen. The child, Edwin Black, was raised by Karen. Edwin is tech-savvy and holds a master’s degree in comparative literature. He successfully applies for a paid internship at the Oakland Indian Centre, which requires him to help organise the powwow. Karen’s boyfriend, Bill Davis, works in maintenance at the Oakland Coliseum – location of the Big Oakland Powwow. In her youth, Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield was in a relationship with Lucas who moved in with his sister, Norma, when he was dying of alcohol induced liver failure. Norma has a mixed-race son, Dene Oxendene, who, at the age of thirteen, inherited a camera from Lucas. Dene gets a $5,000 grant to document urban Indian stories and sets up a tent at the Big Oakland Powwow. Blue used to work with Maggie, sister of Calvin and Charles Johnson. Calvin lives with Maggie and her daughter Sonny. Blue gets Calvin a job finding younger vendors and supporting young Native artists and entrepreneurs at the powwow. Charles, his best friend Carlos and Calvin all sell weed for Octavio Gomez. Calvin is robbed of a consignment of weed he was supposed to sell. Charles and Carlos smoke theirs. All three are now in debt to Octavio. Octavio’s father died in a shooting avenging the theft of weed by Octavio’s brother, Junior, and uncle, Sixto. Octavio’s mother and brother were killed in a car accident when they were passengers in a drunk Sixto’s car. Octavio moved in with his grandmother, Josefina. Manny and Daniel Gonzales were cousins of Octavio. Their father was thrown out of the house following an attack on their mother, Sylvia. Manny was killed in a revenge shooting, leaving a young Daniel to support his mother. Daniel makes guns on a 3D printer. Octavio buys six guns for $5,000. Daniel gives $3,000 to Sylvia and spends the balance on a drone and VR glasses. Tony Loneman has foetal alcohol syndrome. His dad doesn’t know he exists and his mother is in jail. He lives with and cares for his grandmother, Maxine. He supports her with the proceeds of selling weed and cocaine for Octavio. Octavio persuades Tony, Calvin, Charles and Carlos to rob the powwow with him, using the 3D guns printed by Daniel. Octavio forbids his cousin Daniel to attend the powwow, but says he can use the drone to watch the robbery. In full Native regalia, Tony smuggles bullets into the powwow. An amazing climax to a gripping tale follows. Tommy Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Particularly in the epilogue and interlude, he outlines the shameful genocide and displacement of Native people. The story is told with sometimes shocking honesty and a clutch of fascinating, distinct voices. I feel the large cast of characters is handled well and the failure to resolve every issue by the end of the novel is necessary. Despite the clear search for identity and the challenges facing Native people, no solution is offered. Life rarely serves up a neat, happy ending. I enjoyed the dark humour: ‘He’s always feared he’ll find out that he’s smelled like piss and shit his whole life without knowing it, that everyone’s been afraid to tell him, like Kevin Farley from the fifth grade who ended up killing himself the summer of their junior year in high school when he found out.’ When you begin to wonder whether every Native person abuses alcohol, Harvey says: ‘There’s not some special relationship between Indians and alcohol. It’s just what’s cheap, available, legal. It’s what we have to go to when it seems like we have nothing else left.’ And probably my favourite quote from the book: ‘We don’t have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse. We shiver. We struggle for release, and then it pecks out our eyes and intestines for sustenance and we die the death of field mice.’ ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ building tension *by M***T on 26 December 2025* A well written story about the complexities of relationships, in and alongside families. I learnt a lot about the history and current perspective of Native Americans and the struggle to be recognised and heard. I became involved ### ⭐⭐⭐ ... it - however I did not find it a great read and not up to what I was expecting *by K***R on 18 August 2018* I heard a review of this book on the radio wit the author reading from it which got me buying it - however I did not find it a great read and not up to what I was expecting. ## Frequently Bought Together - There There - Wandering Stars: A Novel - Martyr!: A Novel --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.kg/products/298719034-there-there-tommy-orange](https://www.desertcart.kg/products/298719034-there-there-tommy-orange) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kyrgyzstan* *Store origin: KG* *Last updated: 2026-04-27*