"There There" was named one of the Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2018. Structured as a series of short chapters featuring different characters, the book raises questions of identity, belonging and history's relationship to the present.
(Vintage, $16.) This polyphonic debut novel is centered on a group of Native Americans as they travel to a powwow in Oakland, Calif. Cooke, a noted zoologist and documentarían, devotes each of her chapters to a misunderstood creature, upending our assumptions and beliefs about animals. (Basic Books, $16.99.) From the marvelous to the utterly bizarre, there's an astonishing diversity of life on display in this book. New York Times Review THE TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales From the Wild Side of Wildlife, by Lucy Cooke. A multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.
Tommy Orange delivers a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions-intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.
Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father.
Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons.
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