**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024*

The heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER

'A towering achievement' New York Times
'As vital as air' Guardian
'This novel is alive' Tess Gunty

Following the arc of two centuries, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people.

It is also the tender, shattering story of several generations of a Native American family, searching for ways through displacement and pain, towards home and hope: a wondrous novel of poetry, music, rage and love, from one of the most astonishing voices of his generation.

'Wandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
'No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy Orange' Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman
'One of our most important writers... Wondrous' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars
'The care coursing through these pages-care for people, care for art, care for truth-is nothing short of radical' Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch

About the Author
Tommy Orange is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. Orange's debut novel, There There, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, and received the 2019 American Book Award. Wandering Stars is his second book.

Reviews
A revelation * New York Times *
An emotionally incandescent and structurally riveting second novel... Orange's work feels, to me, as vital as air * Guardian *
[Wandering Stars] weaves a tapestry of trauma down the decades... Ultimately, the turns their stories take...are about healing, not catastrophe...marrying eye-opening historical re-creation with gritty social realism * Observer *
A sweeping, centuries-spanning, intergenerational novel concerned with history, legacy and family... Tommy Orange confronts difficult subjects in mellifluous prose... He shows that storytelling is an intoxicant in itself, as powerful in its way as any substance * Times Literary Supplement *
A centuries-spanning epic of a Native family that manages to feel profoundly intimate * Vulture *
Outstanding . . . A dazzling work of literary fiction ... A novel about family, loss, history and addiction * Boston Globe *
A multilayered, blisteringly honest novel ... [Wandering Stars] undeniably soars * San Francisco Chronicle *
Wandering Stars probes the aftermath of atrocity, seeing history and its horrors as heritable . . . The reader can see what the characters cannot * New Yorker *
Varied and textured but also ruthlessly clear -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
Powerful and indelible ... A necessary story for everyone ... Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you -- Morgan Talty, best selling author of Night of the Living Rez
Hold this novel to your heart because [it] is that magnificent -- Richard Van Camp, author of The Moon of Letting Go



Book Information
ISBN 9781787304550
Author Tommy Orange
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Harvill Secker
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 537g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 160mm * 30mm