Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Atria, 2019
Pages: 464
Rating: Do Not Recommend
Synopsis: 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, bighearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.
Review: This book can be described in one word, improbable. I had such a hard time buying into this novel. I tried reading the print version, and couldn't get into it. The audio version was slightly better.
This ended well, but 3/4 of the book was almost a torture read.
This will likely appeal to anyone who liked Where the Crawdads Sing. A coming-of-age, survival novel, and I'm finding out that is not my genre.
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