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TITLE: There There AUTHOR: Tommy Orange EDITOR: Kate Harvey (Liz Foley)

ISBN: 9781787300354 9781787300361

IMPRINT: Harvill Secker

PUB DATE: 02/08/18

FORMAT: Royal Octavo

WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT THIS BOOK? This novel has everything: an involving community of characters, a window onto a lile-known world (the urban Nave Americans of Oakland, California), newsworthiness, a big heart, contemporary relevance, and a charismac author already endorsed as one of the hoest new US writers. It’s fresh in its approach, unusual in its construcon, and sits well with such peers as Diaz, James and Whitehead. This is excing American wring a world away from the Brooklyn hipster novel. It’s polically urgent and will have wide coverage on US publicaon. Pulitzer-worthy, potenally prize- winning, and very possibly on Oprah’s radar, too.

This was acquired (in a six-way aucon) to be a lead tle. There is a gap at Harvill Secker for a significant new American voice (currently we have Erin Morgenstern and Donald Ray Pollock). The agent, Nicole Aragi, also represents Junot Diaz and Colson Whitehead.

In-house fans on acquision: Tom Drake-Lee, Chloe Healy, Bethan Jones, Anna Redman, Beth Coates, Alex Russell, Rosanna Boscawen, the HS team.

THE PITCH A groundbreaking polyphonic novel, weaving together the stories of contemporary Nave American characters into a dynamic narrave about violence and recovery, family and loss, identy and power.

WHO ARE THE READERS? 20-50, literary ficon, current affairs, polically aware, documentaries, contemporary box sets, social media savvy. Pioneers + connectors

COMPARABLE/COMPETING TITLES AND AUTHORS? Colson Whitehead, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: Yaa Gyasi, HOMEGOING; Marlon James A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS; Junot Diaz THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO; Jennifer Egan A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD; DBC Pierre VERNON GOD LITTLE; George Saunders; Jonathan Safran Foer, Eduoard Louis.

ANY CHALLENGES OR OBSTACLES? Avoiding a perceived niche around Nave American wring. Hence all the emphasis on posioning with Marlon James, Junot Diaz, Yaa Gyasi, Jennifer Egan. This is a diasporic voice with something urgent and relevant to say, and above all, it’s great storytelling.

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