Join us for lively discussion of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger. It’s 1932, along the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River. Odie and his brother Albert are orphans confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, Odie, Albert, their best friend Mose and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, journeying into the unknown and searching for a place to call their own. 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.
Contact the Fiction Desk at (847) 923-3140 to arrange to pick up of a copy of the book, or checkout the e-book from the Digital Library of Illinois, the e-book from Axis 360, the audiobook from the Digital Library of Illinois or the audiobook from Hoopla with your Schaumburg Library card.
Questions? Contact bookdiscussion@stdl.org.
Part of our One Book, One Community, this discussion focuses on themes of family, identity, home and belief.
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