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Daytime Discussion: “This Tender Land” by William Kent Krueger
May 17, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
FreeIn May, we’ll be reading “This Tender Land” by William Kent Krueger. We’ll meet on Zoom on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 10:30am. Please call the Library at 860-582-3121 to make arrangements to pick up the book at the Circulation Desk or through curbside. Generally, large type and audiobooks are also available.
“This Tender Land” is also available as a downloadable audiobook, here: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13526995
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 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.