5/31/2023 0 Comments There there by tommy orange![]() I wanted the characters to be working-class, because so often the characters in novels that I’ve read are white and upper-middle-class with white, upper-middle-class problems. You can just look at the health statistics and they’re pretty staggering. I wanted to write characters that felt true and real, and there’s a lot of harrowing detail about the lives of Native people. Many of your characters are deeply troubled. If we all have to be historical, with a headdress, looking off into the distance, that’s hopeless as far as building a proper, complex, human identity. ![]() Writing a polyphonic, multigenerational novel is resisting this one idea of what being Native is supposed to look like. There’s a monolithic version of what a Native is supposed to be. It gives it a kind of propulsion and makes it a really active reading experience.ĭid you also want to portray as many different Native urban experiences as you could? And when the reader gets the connection, something really special happens: like a clicking in place. ![]() ![]() I like, within a novel, to jump around and see how the different voices connect. ![]() I really liked what a chorus of voices could do. What made you decide to have 12 narrators? ![]()
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