Tommy Orange

A debut novel that has already garnered rapturous reviews by the literary world, a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen.  Tommy Orange writes of the plight of the urban Native American and grapples with a complex and painful history of sacred tradition, pageantry, sacrifice, heroism, and unspeakable loss.  Tommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and he is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.