![]() ![]() Though 12-year-old Odie (our narrator) and Albert are not Native American, they endure the cruelty as well. Orphans Odie and Albert O’Banion have been living at a state school for Indian children that is a horrific, prison-like place rife with corruption, cruelty, and bigotry. ![]() ![]() Ostensibly a coming-of-age story, THIS TENDER LAND is set in Minnesota in 1932. THIS TENDER LAND was published in 2019 and is head and shoulders above the current crop of books. Normally I’d wait to read a selection closer to the meeting (too easy to forget!), but I was in need of a book, and the spate of undesirable ones being hyped by publishers lately made me desperate. I’d never heard of this author until his book was chosen for discussion by my book group next December. ![]()
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