The thirteen finalists include Percival Everett’s retelling of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Tommy Orange’s follow-up to “There There.”
Judges for the Booker Prize, given each year to a book of fiction published in the United Kingdom and Ireland, have announced the 13 finalists for 2024., around half of the nominated titles were written by Americans. Tommy Orange, nominated for his novel “Wandering Stars,” is the first Native American writer to be named to the longlist.There There,
” Orange’s debut, told the stories of urban Native Americans gathering in Oakland, Calif., for a powwow. The follow-up, wrapping in some of the same characters, traces 150 years of a family’s history, beginning with Jude Star, a survivor of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre. “It’s not too early to say that Orange is building a body of literature that reshapes the Native American story in the United States,”.
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