This Tender Land: A Novel - Paperback
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9781476749303

This Tender Land: A Novel

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Krueger, William Kent

In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesotaā€™s Gilead River, Odie Oā€™Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendentā€™s wrath. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, 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 summer, these four orphans 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 enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.

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