With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. I also got some fun goodies with this book mail – a map to go with the book, bandana, some candy, and a harmonica!įor fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, a magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.ġ932, Minnesota-the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. While at Lincoln School, Odie proves himself feisty and strong-willed.

THIS TENDER LAND – William Kent Krueger (Releasing September 3rd, 2019) Thelma and Clyde Brickman, the operators of the Lincoln Indian Training School take the boys in, supposedly because all of the other orphanages are full. Thanks to Atria Books for the free advanced copy in exchange for my honest review I’m so excited to see something that takes place in Minnesota!

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