Tommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich

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Deborah Treisman
The New Yorker: Fiction | Aug 1, 2020

Tommy Orange joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Years of My Birth,” by Louise Erdrich, which appeared in a 2011 issue of the magazine. Orange’s first novel, “There There,” was published in 2018 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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