1) There There starts with a prologue: a nonfiction essay about the Native American experience. Similarly, there’s a nonfiction interlude on pages 134–141. Why do you think the author opened with this prologue and included the interlude? And how did it inform your reading of the novel? 2) Of the 12 central characters the novel follows, were there some storylines that you enjoyed or cared about more than the others? If so, what about those characters made their story stand out?

3) Why do you think Orange chose to tell this story from so many different perspectives? And why were some told from a first-person perspective while others were the third person? Was it ever challenging to follow so many storylines before they began to converge?

4) In an interview with Read it Forward, author Tommy Orange had this to say about the concept of home: "I love the word home because it feels good to say it when you feel it, and it can mean so many different th