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Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

13 reviews

lettuce_read's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Gun violence and Pandemic/Epidemic

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Transphobia, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, Dementia, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

savvylit's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Tommy Orange can write multiple points of view in a truly unparalleled manner. Beginning with a man who has gone mute after escaping the Sand Creek Massacre, each character's perspective is unique and wholly their own. Despite the years that lapse between vignettes, each character's presence carries from one descendant to the next in a way that illuminates the way that trauma is inherited.

As a fan of There There, I was delighted to not only get to know their ancestors but to have a chance to revisit Orvil, Opal, Jacquie, Lony, and Loother. When we return to the modern-day Readfeather family, each character is reckoning with the aftermath of the events of There There. The spectrum of emotion they each experience is both heartbreaking and palpable. Lony, the youngest member of the family, has a particularly devastating way of dealing with his trauma that feels so true to both his age and way of seeing the world.

If you're a fan of historical fiction and character studies, you can't miss Wandering Stars!

Thank you @netgalley and @aaknopf for the e-ARC of Wandering Stars in exchange for my honest review! All thoughts and opinions are my own. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic