"Didn't need the underlying social message"
With his signature "pitch-perfect, wonderfully evocative" (Dennis Lehane, New York Times best-selling author) prose, William Kent Krueger's This Tender Land shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole. As they search for a place to belong, these four remarkable children will lose their innocence but gain the strength to survive in the face of terrible loss. Over the course of this unforgettable summer, Odie, Albert, Mose, and Emmy carefully make their way through the small river towns and big cities filled with people who are by turns desperate and generous, cruel and kind. Brickman will stop at nothing to track them down for dark reasons of her own. Soon, they are wanted by the law, and they know that Mrs. Frost, it's the catalyst for a series of events that will send Odie, Albert, and Mose to rescue Emmy and flee down the river in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi, leaving a dead body in their wake. And they find another ally in Cora Frost, a widowed teacher who is raising her little girl, Emmy, by herself. The two boys' best friend is Mose, a mute Native American who is also the strongest kid in school. Brickman, are often in trouble for misdeeds both real and imagined. The only two white boys in the school are orphan brothers Odie and Albert, who, under the watchful eyes of the cruel superintendent Mrs.
This beautiful, tender land."ġ932: Located on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota, Lincoln School is home to hundreds of Native American boys and girls who have been separated from their families. Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land. In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods. The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair.
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