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Random House presents the audiobook edition of There There by Tommy Orange, read by Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo and Kyla Garcia. Jacquie Red Feather and her sister Opal grew up together, relying on each other during their unsettled childhood. As adults they were driven...

Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But when he begins to feel the urge to become a father, and the pressure from his boyfriend to make a...

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. What happens when his idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting.

Colorado, 1864. Jude Star, un giovane Cheyenne sopravvissuto al massacro di Sand Creek, viene mandato nella prigione di Fort Marion, dove è costretto a imparare l'inglese e a praticare il cristianesimo da Richard Henry Pratt, una guardia carceraria evangelica che fonderà la Carlisle Indian Industrial School, un'istituzione dedicata allo sradicamento della storia, della cultura e dell'identità dei nativi. Una generazione dopo, il figlio di Star, Charles, che frequenta quella scuola, viene brutalizzato dall'uomo che era stato il carceriere di suo padre.

Moving between London and Kenya, spanning almost two decades, Homecoming is a profound and moving story of love, family and friendship. It's about coming to terms with your past, opening yourself up to the exquisite pain and pleasure of love and of what happens when three lost souls, all bound by one person, come together and finally share their truths.

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the story of a Native American community told through the generations, from the author of the New York Times bestseller There There Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of...