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lesleydunny 's review for:
There There
by Tommy Orange
“This is the thing: if you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right or not, or whether it even deserves consideration, that’s how you know you’re on board the ship that serves hors d’oeuvres and fluffs your pillows, while others are out at sea, swimming or drowning, or clinging to little inflatable rafts that they have to take turns keeping inflated, people short of breath, who’ve never even heard of the words hors d’oeuvres or fluff”
There were a lot of characters in this book, and while I did have some trouble keeping track of how they were all interconnected, I still loved each of their stories. They were funny, inspiring, heartbreaking, and tragic, but they were so real. Even in moments when someone had questionable motives or was making the wrong decision, I still found myself feeling so much for them because of the complexities of what led them to those moments. I really appreciated the prologue and the interlude for all the new information I learned. Despite being written in a different style than the story, that insertion of factual history feels so appropriate alongside these fictional stories because they are so deeply based in reality. Tommy Orange did a fantastic job of doing justice to each person’s story and keeping their individual personalities at the center of their chapters. I would read a whole book about any one of the characters from this one.
There were a lot of characters in this book, and while I did have some trouble keeping track of how they were all interconnected, I still loved each of their stories. They were funny, inspiring, heartbreaking, and tragic, but they were so real. Even in moments when someone had questionable motives or was making the wrong decision, I still found myself feeling so much for them because of the complexities of what led them to those moments. I really appreciated the prologue and the interlude for all the new information I learned. Despite being written in a different style than the story, that insertion of factual history feels so appropriate alongside these fictional stories because they are so deeply based in reality. Tommy Orange did a fantastic job of doing justice to each person’s story and keeping their individual personalities at the center of their chapters. I would read a whole book about any one of the characters from this one.