Over several days, the children and Jack grow closer, and they help him build a still. The group is soon captured by Jack, a WWI veteran with a missing eye and scarred face which leads Odie to call him The Pig-scarer.

Louis to stay with Albert and Odie's Aunt Julia. When Odie accidentally kills one of the school's brutal teachers, the three escape downriver in a canoe with Emmy, with the goal of arriving in St. After a tornado kills the only kind teacher, Cora, and Cora's husband, their orphaned daughter, Emmy, is adopted by Clyde and Thelma Brickman, the cruel principals of the Lincoln School. The O'Bannions' best friend is Mose, a mute Sioux boy with a talent for baseball. In 1932, 12-year-old Odysseus 'Odie' O'Bannion and his older brother Albert are the only two white children raised in the brutality of Lincoln Indian Training School in central Minnesota. It tracks the adventures of 12-year-old Odysseus 'Odie' O'Bannion, his older brother Albert, and two of their friends after they flee the brutality of the (fictional) Lincoln Indian School, and travel by canoe down the (fictional) Gilead, Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in hopes of reuniting with their aunt in St. I love it as much, if not more, than 'Ordinary Grace'.'

After these lengthy reviews, Krueger said 'I am deeply in love with this book. Krueger had written a companion novel to Ordinary Grace, that was accepted and revised, but he pulled it at the last minute and revised it substantially over the next four years, incorporating elements from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Odyssey. This Tender Land is a book written by William Kent Krueger and published by Atria Books (now owned by Simon & Schuster ) in September 2019.

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