They become a little family as they navigate in a canoe from Lincoln School towards Saint Louis on the Mississippi. Odie (nearly 13, his older brother Albert, Moses ( a mute Sioux boy) and 6-year old Emmy are all searching for something – home. Leaving behind the cruel and corrupt Lincoln Indian School, Odie O’Banion and three other orphans set off to find a new life, and nearly perish in doing so. Set in Minnesota in 1932, our narrator is a 12-year old boy (nearly thirteen, he keeps telling the reader), finds himself caught up in an adventure of a lifetime. Here is my book review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger. I found it here in this beautifully written story. I have been struggling to find a really captivating novel for a while. One of the best books I have read in months.
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