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1) There there
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"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil...
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2022.
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Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent-which has now more than doubled-and to keep the 9-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. What begins...
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There There: A novel by Tommy Orange: Conversation Starters
There There is the New York Times bestselling book of author Tommy Orange. This groundbreaking book poses the question, "What does it really mean to be an Indian? A native American? American Indian?" There There follows a unique case of teenagers and elders who ask this question in light of the complexity of the modern world. Orange's characters live in the urban Oakland, California. This...
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