![]() Great classical writers like John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, andĮrnest Hemingway, which may partly explain why This Tender Land has “theįeel of a classic” (quoted from the back cover). William Kent Krueger cites as his literary inspirers ![]() ![]() In gorgeous, lyrical, heart-wrenching, spiritual prose that seems destined to Odie’s recollections are vivid, because “everything that’s been done to us we carry forever.” That’s one of the many piercing questions gifted storyteller Odie O’Banion asks in his eighties as he looks back on four “soul-crushing” years he endured at an Indian boarding school in Lincoln, Minnesota, along with his older protective brother, Albert, and two other orphans they befriended – Mose, member of the Dakota Sioux tribal nation, and Emmy, an adorable little girl – and what happens to them afterwards in one life-changing summer in 1932. ![]() Children survive inhumane treatment at an Indian Boarding School during theĭepression: (Minnesota, 1932): “Does anyone ever get ![]()
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