![]() ![]() Several book club members found the book surprisingly delightful and enjoyed discussing the characters their journeys Odie's storytelling the significance of Odie's full name - Odysseus - Native Indian boarding school history. 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. ![]() 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. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Set in 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. ![]() On Thursday MaBook Club members convened at the home of Sandy to enjoy a delicious carrot cake criss cross buns munchies and tea in front a delightful fire to discuss William Kent Krueger's "This Tender Land" which we enjoyed discussing. ![]()
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