- Published: 10 June 2025
- ISBN: 9781529930344
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $22.99
Wandering Stars

















- Published: 10 June 2025
- ISBN: 9781529930344
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $22.99
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
[Orange brings] both impressive historical sweep and touching domestic intimacy to an account of a Native American family over two centuries
Guardian, *Books of the Year*
Tremendous… [Wandering Stars is] unforgettable, often devastating… I love its kaleidoscopic sensibility, its big heart, anger and audaciousness
Observer, *Books of the Year*
A transcendent novel about one family’s intergenerational pain and grief… Written with the adept skill of an archivist and heart of a poet, this novel is truly expansive… evening in moments of deep crisis, Orange holds space for humour and fierce love
Skinny
Among the tragedy that is foreshadowed throughout, there is also redemption and humanity. It's a stunning book
Dua Lipa, Service95 Bookclub Pick March 2025