Tommy Orange has a new book coming out—but fans will have to wait 90 years to read it.
The author is the latest pick for the Future Library, a public art project that collects a manuscript every year with the goal of publishing all of them in 2114, the Guardian reports.
Orange, author of the novels There There and Wandering Stars, becomes the first Native American writer to be chosen for the project, which was established in 2014 by Scottish artist Katie Paterson. The Future Library intends to print anthologies featuring the submissions from the authors in 90 years using paper made from 1,000 spruce trees currently growing in Norway’sNordmarka forest.
On the Future Library website, Paterson said that Orange’s writing “is a driving force for transformation, destined to resonate with readers of the 22nd century,” and praised the author’s “powerful and emotional storytelling.”
“I had not heard of this project before, but when I saw the list of the names of the other authors from previous years I was floored to be in the ranks of such people,” Orange said. “I think it’s a little scary writing for people who will most definitely deem us stupid and inferior in many ways just as when we look back a hundred years we can see clearly all the problems we had just being decent human beings.”
The first author to contribute to the project was Margaret Atwood. Other writers who were tapped to submit manuscripts include David Mitchell, Han Kang, Karl Ove Knausgård, Ocean Vuong, and Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
