All Over the Page - Wandering Stars

This month we will be discussing Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. The discussion will be led by Paige Travis. 

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

Paige Travis is a lifelong Knoxville resident and graduate of the University of Tennessee. She has sold used books, written for local newspapers, and promoted concerts and festivals. She currently manages social media for the City of Knoxville. She loves local radio, neighborhood festivals, plants and boosting the signal of good things happening in our community. She is married to musician Greg Horne. They have one cat, Daisy