Wandering Stars

Author: Orange, Tommy

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 6 March 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages
198 x 130 x 20 | 236g

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWandering Stars is the kind of book that saves lives Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generationsColorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by an evangelical prison guard, who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial school, dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture and identity.

Years later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to this school, where he is brutalised by the same man. Together with fellow student Opal Viola, Charles envisions a future far away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

Full of poetry music, rage and love, Wandering Stars, looks to the past and future across the generations of the Bear Shield and Red Feather family, finding their way through displacement and pain, towards home and hope.

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024Wondrous Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-StarsThis novel is alive Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit HutchA towering achievement’ New York TimesAs vital as air Guardian