This Tender Land
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger is a large print edition published by Gale, a Cengage Company on September 4, 2019. Set during the Great Depression, the novel follows four orphans—Odie O’Banion, his brother Albert, their friend Mose, and a girl named Emmy—as they escape from the Lincoln School in Minnesota, a place where Native American children are separated from their families. Their journey down the Mississippi River is filled with challenges and encounters that shape their understanding of home and belonging.
Readers will find a narrative that explores themes of adventure and resilience as the orphans navigate a world filled with diverse characters, including struggling farmers and traveling faith healers. This edition, comprising 677 pages, presents a rich tapestry of experiences that reflect the historical context and emotional depth of the characters’ lives. With elements of mystery, romance, and suspense, This Tender Land offers a poignant look at the connections forged through shared struggles and the quest for identity amidst the vast American landscape.
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For 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.
1932, Minnesota–the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. 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.
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. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an en-thralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.
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