[applause] tommy orange, when you couldn't find work a as a sound engineer after college, tommy orangefe changing choice but they get job in a used bookstore. surrounded literature, orange weekly became an avid reader as explained in the art, quote, i was in my 20s and also searching for meaning and it wasn't a reader, so fiction was a super novel thing for me. hence the novel itself was. and i just fell in love with it. his job choice evolve into his stunningly beautiful debut novel, "there there." decide to write about native americans in an urban setting, orange has quote enlarge the landscape of american fiction and earned her praise as a new writer with an old heart. this juxtaposition of the old with the new permeates the masterful prose. as orange points out, despite the fact that seven out of ten native people live in cities, quote, urban indians have kind of a double invisibility going on. in the country in which the stereotype is reservation life, ripping on crooked famous quote about oakland, there is no there there. orange powerfully reconfigures the city as the home of the