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Our Books correspondent Lynn Neary has just come back from Book Expo, the gigantic annual publishing trade show in New York City – and every year, there are books that publishers are buzzing about. This year, it’s There There, the debut novel from Native American author Tommy Orange. Lynn got to spend some time with Orange:

There There is a work of fiction, but it begins with a nonfiction essay that shatters the myth of the stoic Native, portrayed over the years by the iconic Indian head image, which was once ubiquitous on nickels and on late night TV. Orange replaces that benign image with brutal examples from history of violence against Indians.

He says, “For Native writers there’s a kind of burden to set the record straight because it’s been told wrong so long. So I was trying to find a way to do it in an interesting way. And I started finding all these connections around the Indian head and all these different ways that the Indian head has played out throughout history.”

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