There There Tommy Orange

In his literary theory treatise Poetics, Philosopher Aristotle explains that a successful tragedy must have characters who are improved-upon versions of their real-life subjects, making good, moral choices and appearing appropriate, lifelike, and...

“In the dark times/Will there also be singing?” is the opening question of Tommy Orange’s 2018 novel (10). From the very beginning, There There establishes itself in a time when traditions such as tribal singing are figments of the past for the...