

They are hard to look away from, especially or perhaps because the author foreshadows the violence that will visit them. It might be the honesty with which these characters are drawn. No single point of view prevails, and we enter deep into their distinct psyches, and yet the plot moves. While the prologue and interlude are potent, it is the novel’s dozen indelible characters who make Orange’s complex orchestration remarkable. But intense essayistic interventions in the prologue and interlude and certain passages of dialogue ensure we understand the history that girds the characters’ stories, the source of their melancholia.Īn epigraph to the book’s interlude from poet Charles Baudelaire’s notes, “Life swarms with innocent monsters.” The juxtaposition of “innocent” and “monsters” interrogates the purported “innocence” of a country and systems founded on massacres. The many contemporary stories of the 2018 novel rivet us. Random House UK, 2019.įind citation guides for additional books linked here.We hope you are enjoying Tommy Orange’s kaleidoscopic debut, There There, our November California Book Club selection.

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