Historical Fiction Book Club

Monday, January 276:30—7:30 PMClassroomPeabody Institute Library of Danvers15 Sylvan Street, Danvers, MA, 01923

Join our Historical Fiction Book Club where we'll meet in-person every other month on the last Monday from 6:30-7:30PM in the Library's Classroom. This book group will focus on reading Historical fiction titles. If you have any questions you can email sjacobie@noblenet.org

This month we will be discussing Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange . You can find copies online through our NOBLE catalog in Regular PrintLarge Print, CD Audiobook, Preloaded audiobook, and e-book version via overdrive.

About the book:

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 bethe 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.


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