Overview: In this website we will dive deep into the works and the life of Native American author, Tommy Orange. On the home page, you can read a short summary about Orange, review a list of his works, discover quick links to every page of the website, read one of Orange's many thought provoking quotes
Tommy Orange was born in 1982 in Oakland, California. Orange is a Native American Author, a part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, who writes fictional novels to represent urban Native Americans, an often overlooked and forgotten community.
His novels include:
There There
Wandering Stars
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
"We know the sound of the freeway better than we do rivers, the howl of distant trains better than wolf howls, we know the smell of gas and freshly wet concrete and burned rubber better than we do the smell of cedar or sage or even fry bread".