'Lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy. 'An exhilarating, polyphonic debut novel. And Tony has come to the Powow with darker intentions. All of them are here for the celebration that is the Big Oakland Powwow. A young adult man who lives in Oakland, Tonys fetal alcohol syndrome gives him distinctive facial features. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and Opal came to watch her boy Orvil dance.Īll of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. 'Astonishing' Margaret Atwood, via Twitter One of Barack Obama's best books of 2018, the New York Times bestselling novel about contemporary America from a bold new Native American voice Tony’s narrative foreshadows the eventual shooting at the Big Oakland Powwow as he describes how Octavio Gomez directs him to procure and hide the bullets in some bushes beyond the Oakland Coliseum’s metal detectors. ** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award ** Tony Loneman explains his relationship with the Drome (16), the fetal alcohol syndrome he was born with.
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