Orange takes on the voice of a different character in each chapter. There There is a novel about American Indians in Oakland, California: “Urban Indians,” Orange writes, who “came to know the downtown Oakland skyline better than we did any sacred mountain range, the redwoods in the Oakland hills better than any other deep wild forest.” Reader, I must confirm: There There really is an extremely good book. “Yes, Tommy Orange’s New Novel Really Is That Good,” says the New York Times headline, in an echo of its famous Hamilton review. “So she’s not there there yet,” one of the publishers concluded. “Have you read There There yet?” I was asked at a publishing party. If there’s a novel of the summer this year, it’s Tommy Orange’s There There.
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