![]() ![]() On the run from their school headmistress and the law, they encounter other wanderers and escapees from life as they canoe towards St. “It begins in an isolated Dickensian boarding school in Minnesota during the early years of the Depression, then morphs into the story of four runaways in a canoe à la Huckleberry Finn. “The work of a master storyteller about the making of a young storyteller, This Tender Land is a coming-of-age novel for the ages,” said Renee Barker of The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. ![]() Onward from their escape, Odie recalls the children’s epic odyssey along the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers toward the hope of safety and freedom in St. ![]() ![]() That year, he and three other orphaned children, who call themselves The Vagabonds, escape from the Lincoln Indian Training School, where Native American children were taken to be forcibly assimilated and often abused. In This Tender Land, narrator Odie O’Banion recalls his childhood in Minnesota in the summer of 1932. Krueger’s third stand-alone novel is a companion book to O rdinary Grace, published in 2013, which received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Independent booksellers across the country have chosen This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books, September 3) as their number-one pick for the September Indie Next List. ![]()
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