Wandering Stars

In Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that extends his constellation of narratives into the past and future. By turns shattering and wondrous, Wandering Stars revisits the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—and asks what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book full of history, poetry, and hope. The questions that follow are designed to enrich your book club’s discussion of Wandering Stars. We hope they enhance your experience of this brilliantly perceptive novel from one of America’s most important contemporary writers.