![]() This fictional book, set primarily in southern Minnesota along the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, weaves actual history into the storyline. ![]() The school is not so much a school as a prison with cruelty and abuse defining life there. Yes, such schools really existed long ago. In a nutshell, This Tender Land tells the story of orphaned brothers, Odie and Albert, who are sent to the Lincoln Indian Training School, although they are not Native Americans. And I didn’t start reading it immediately as I had to first finish The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ten days after I picked up the book from Buckham Memorial Library, where I’d been on a waiting list for months to get the 2019 release, I’d finished the novel. ![]() ![]() But now I can add another title to that list. I’VE LONG BEEN A FAN of Minnesota writer William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor mystery series and stand-alone book, Ordinary Grace. ![]()
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