“This is the kind of book that makes you gasp for air because it has gripped you in that spot between your heart and your neck and won’t let go. Heather Weldon, Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ Summer 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List I think this may be the best book I’ve ever read.” There There has claimed a permanent spot in my heart despite having broken it, or maybe because it did. He also writes with incredible heart and humor, infusing his characters with a tangible humanity and moments of joy even as they are headed toward tragedy. Tommy Orange writes with a palpable anger and pain, telling the history of a cultural trauma handed down through generations in the blood and bones and stories of individual lives. It is a work of fiction, but every word of it feels true. “ There There is the kind of book that grabs you from the start and doesn’t let go, even after you’ve turned the last page.
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