![]() ![]() ![]() “But we’re trying to find a way to survive and continue on, and have an identity and have a way of life and a relationship to each other and to the land.” “Our way of life and the way we existed before - in a way there is no there there, also,” said Orange, who now lives in Angels Camp and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. It also relates to the history and the weight of Native American existence of the novel’s dozen characters, whose lives intersect in various ways as they make their way to the Big Oakland Powwow. ![]() ![]() The phrase serves as an appropriate title, not just because Orange’s book primarily takes place in a changing Oakland. If you don’t feel like there’s a soul of a place, it’s easy to move into it and take over.”īut Stein essentially meant the opposite, referring instead to her childhood version of Oakland and how it had been developed over. “If you take it out of context, you can use it that way if it’s convenient for you. “A lot of people have used it over time as if she was saying Oakland has no character or soul or distinction or defining qualities,” Orange said from New York, amid a whirlwind of press for his book that has electrified the literary world. ![]()
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