![]() ![]() 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. William Kent Krueger is the New York Times bestselling author of The River We Remember, This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), and the original audio novella The Levee, as well as nineteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, including Lightning Strike and Fox Creek. ![]() 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. ![]() Janet Geddis, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA This Tender Land is an epic story as big as the Mississippi River herself. Fans of historical fiction will love this well-researched tale. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. William Kent Kruger’s This Tender Land is an epic adventure, a story that takes us on a journey through one boy’s Depression-blighted summer of 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. A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace. ![]()
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