--- product_id: 703590790 title: "Wandering Stars: A Novel" price: "₹ 2576" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/703590790-wandering-stars-a-novel store_origin: IN region: India --- # Wandering Stars: A Novel **Price:** ₹ 2576 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wandering Stars: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 2576 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/703590790-wandering-stars-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty." The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. "For the sake of knowing, of understanding, 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, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There —warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts. Review: Powerful, emotional sequel to "There There" - "Wandering Stars" first takes a step back a hundred years to place the characters ancestors at the Sand Creek Massacre and Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The book opens with brutal recounting of not only death but the mutilation and bloodsport that Native Americans were subject to by settlers and the enormous price they paid for the violence and trauma they experienced. It's rough reading. The book spends the first half leading up to the current day which is the months after the PowWow shooting massacre and its after effects on the survivors and families. It's a little tricky to follow the plot lines to the current day but they do connect and the goal of giving context and background to how rootless and lost the current generation of more urban Native Americans are is well achieved. Ultimately we want to know what happened. Sisters Jacqui (biological grandmother) and Opal Viola (adopted grandmother) of Orvil, Loother and Lony move in together. There are characters now addicted to drugs and alcohol. Others fighting to stay sober and everyone trying to find there way economically and socially. It's quite a setting. Tommy Orange writes beautifully and with urgency. I wanted to keep reading. Through the suffering there is hope and optimism that reflects the goodness of his characters more than any underlying improvement in the American treatment and recognition of the Native American plight. Well worth reading. Review: Broke my heart - I love Tommy Orange's prose and his insights into the characters, yet I could not read this novel steadily, as I did with There There. The story is extremely painful, and some of the interludes did not hold my attention. The tale of intergenerational trauma was well told, and the interior monologues of Orvil, Lony, and Loother were sad, funny, and captivating at the same time. Yet, I felt that the author blew by some of the earlier characters without fully developing them. Perhaps a more aggressive editor could have shaped the book better. Still, I look forward to his next work, even though I did not feel that this one compared favorably to There There. (I did appreciate the genealogy chart, because I had to refer to it several times.) ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #69,646 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #97 in Indigenous Fiction #228 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #2,929 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 2,821 Reviews | ## Images ![Wandering Stars: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81lC3fiSG1L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful, emotional sequel to "There There" *by D***S on January 6, 2026* "Wandering Stars" first takes a step back a hundred years to place the characters ancestors at the Sand Creek Massacre and Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The book opens with brutal recounting of not only death but the mutilation and bloodsport that Native Americans were subject to by settlers and the enormous price they paid for the violence and trauma they experienced. It's rough reading. The book spends the first half leading up to the current day which is the months after the PowWow shooting massacre and its after effects on the survivors and families. It's a little tricky to follow the plot lines to the current day but they do connect and the goal of giving context and background to how rootless and lost the current generation of more urban Native Americans are is well achieved. Ultimately we want to know what happened. Sisters Jacqui (biological grandmother) and Opal Viola (adopted grandmother) of Orvil, Loother and Lony move in together. There are characters now addicted to drugs and alcohol. Others fighting to stay sober and everyone trying to find there way economically and socially. It's quite a setting. Tommy Orange writes beautifully and with urgency. I wanted to keep reading. Through the suffering there is hope and optimism that reflects the goodness of his characters more than any underlying improvement in the American treatment and recognition of the Native American plight. Well worth reading. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Broke my heart *by G***E on April 8, 2024* I love Tommy Orange's prose and his insights into the characters, yet I could not read this novel steadily, as I did with There There. The story is extremely painful, and some of the interludes did not hold my attention. The tale of intergenerational trauma was well told, and the interior monologues of Orvil, Lony, and Loother were sad, funny, and captivating at the same time. Yet, I felt that the author blew by some of the earlier characters without fully developing them. Perhaps a more aggressive editor could have shaped the book better. Still, I look forward to his next work, even though I did not feel that this one compared favorably to There There. (I did appreciate the genealogy chart, because I had to refer to it several times.) ### ⭐⭐⭐ Sophomore Slump *by J***B on March 17, 2024* What happened after the shooting at the powwow in There There? Well, you have to slog through 1/3 of Wandering Stars to find out. The first 80 pages recount the mainstreaming of natives after the Sand Creek Massacre, told through the lives of survivors and their descendants, beginning in 1864. It's a bummer of a read because we don't stay with each character long enough to connect with them. Instead we get pages and pages of white men violently deracinating each successive generation of the Star and Bear Shield families. They are left disenfranchised and identity-less, unequipped to deal with racist western civilization. All this occurs with an anvil-to-the-skull level of subtlety, and with none of the humor that made There There such a good book. Orange is terrific with contemporary scenes and dialog. Period fiction, not so much. After that miserable history we finally get back to modern Oakland and pick up with Orvil and Jacquie Red Feather. Orvil becomes a teenage addict after he was shot; Jacquie's a recovering addict. In fact, the remaining 2/3 of the book focuses on folks getting high and then dealing with or succumbing to addiction. It doesn't make for enjoyable reading. There's a lot of circular, repetitive prose in this book. Example: "But the idea of it is impossible to shake, because if you’ve felt it before, to have touched the bliss of oblivion is to have already gone too far past yourself, past self-interest, into that othered beyond where all that matters is dutifully obeying the need for the need like an itch that’s impossible to not scratch but also impossible to scratch enough to fulfill what the itch is asking for." The writing is different and challenging, but the cleverness gets tiresome. It's easy to like and connect with Orvil and his little brothers, Lony and Loother. Orange depicts family dynamics expertly. The relationships between the boys and their grandma and grandaunt are the bright spots of the book, and make it worth reading. There are parts that are genuinely funny. It's interesting how deftly Orange can jump back and forth between first and third person in the telling. But readers who tune in for a sequel to There There will be disappointed by a book that's pretty low on action and populated by depressed drug addicts. It's a tragic community that's constantly despairing over the loss of its native identity at the merciless hands of white America. The book isn't exactly outright contemptuous of white people, but it's noticeable that there are no sympathetic or appealing white characters. Orange's was a new, distinct voice in his debut novel. He's still got it in Wandering Stars, but the second time out the story is a lot less compelling. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/703590790-wandering-stars-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.in/products/703590790-wandering-stars-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-07-28*