The Narrow Road Between Desires will release on November 14th, 2023.For after all, what good is wisdom if it keeps you from finding your way to danger and delight? In it he traces the old ways of making and breaking, following his heart even when doing so goes against his better judgement. Playful, sweet, and sly as Bast himself, The Narrow Road Between Desires is Bast’s story.
And for all his cleverness, Bast finds himself trapped in ways he has never experienced before, and make hard choices and help an enemy. While at first it seems that Bast must be master of this tiny domain, but while he cares nothing for the laws of man, there are older, deeper laws that bind him. Tony talks about struggles with the "Drome," meaning fetal alcohol syndrome, and is in with a bunch of lowlifes who've gotten a hold of 3-D printed plastic guns they're planning to use in a robbery at the powwow.Follow the Kingkiller Chronicle’s most charming fae as he schemes and bargains his way through the small town of Newarre. We readers know from the outset that something terrible will happen at that powwow the minute we meet our first character, 21-year-old Tony Loneman. Instead, his novel is composed of the stories of a bunch of Native and mixed-race characters, all of them eventually converging in a climactic scene at a big powwow in the Oakland Coliseum. But in There There, Orange wanted to do something more than fictionalize his own experience. Orange knows the feeling and the terrain: He also grew up in Oakland and is enrolled in the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. Orange's story takes place in Oakland, Calif., and his title comes from the famous pronouncement about rootlessness that Gertrude Stein made when, as an adult, she revisited Oakland, her childhood home. the smell of gas and freshly wet concrete and burned rubber better than do the smell of cedar or sage." This is a novel about urban Indians, about native peoples who know, as he says, "the sound of the freeway better than do rivers.
There There is distinguished not only by Orange's crackling style, but by its unusual subject.
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