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This tender land : a novel / William Kent Krueger.

Summary:

"A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace. 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. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. 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. 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. 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781476749303
  • ISBN: 9781982136284
  • ISBN: 1476749299
  • ISBN: 9781476749297
  • ISBN: 9781476749303
  • ISBN: 1476749302
  • Physical Description: 450 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Atria Books edition
  • Publisher: New York : Atria Paperback, 2020.

Content descriptions

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Subject:
Orphans > Fiction.
Indians of North America > Fiction.
Boarding schools > Fiction.
Voyages and travels > Fiction.
Runaway children > Fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > Fiction.
Depressions > 1929 > United States > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Siblings.
Mississippi River > Fiction.
Minnesota > Fiction.
Genre:
Coming-of-age fiction
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 124 of 145 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Caswell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 3 current holds with 145 total copies.
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