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020    $a 0593824539
020    $a 9780593824535
040    $d SILO
100    $a Orange, Tommy,
245    $a Wandering stars
250    $a Unabridged audio.
264  1 $a New York, NY : $b Random House Audio $c 2024.
300    $a 8 audio discs (9.5 hr.) : $c 4 3/4 in.
500    $a Read by a full cast.
520    $a Colorado, 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 Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathers jailer. Under Pratts harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
520    $a In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There Therewarriors, drunks, outlaws, addictsasking what it means to bethe 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 from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Oranges monumental gifts.
655    $a Audiobooks.
655    $a FICTION / Sagas.
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952    $l RUPC135 $d 20240712012914.0
956    $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=35D028FA401411EFAD2B530A4CECA4DB

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