Wandering Stars

There There drops on us like a thunderclap: the big, booming, explosive sound of 21st-century literature finally announcing itself. Essential

Marlon James, Booker Prize winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

Gripping... an astonishing literary debut!

Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)

A brilliant and generous artist who has already enlarged the landscape of American fiction... a new writer with an old heart

Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Night Watchman

A work of pure, soaring beauty

Colm Tóibín, bestselling author of Brooklyn

How do you rewrite the story of a people? This question shapes Tommy Orange’s sorrowful, beautiful debut novel. . . . Even in its tragic details, it is lyrical and playful, shaking and shimmering with energy

Guardian

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