You’ll get the same feels and the writing that is just as brilliant. Think of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that’s been updated a century. The symbolic nature of the river is not lost on the reader, nor is the title.įans of Where the Crawdads Sing or The Great Alone will adore this beautiful and magnanimous novel. They lived under the stars, created their own path and used the land around them for food and shelter. These kids created their own family, each taking important roles as caretaker, decision maker, leader and emotional relief. The kids were each richly developed and grew within themselves and into my heart.Īs explained in the blurb and many other reviews, these children are traveling along the Mississippi river to escape the persecution they dealt with at the Lincoln School. I’m so glad I did I fell in love with these characters like nobody’s business. I would have read this anyway, but his comment made me want to jump right in.
I was lucky enough to meet the author at BEA in New York and there he told me that he liked these characters and this story more than those in Ordinary Grace. Although best known for his Cork O’Connor series, he also authored the best-selling Ordinary Grace, which was a book club favorite in 2013. ( From the publisher.This Tender Landwill land on my Best of All-Time book list, not only the best of 2019. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.
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. 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. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Minnesota-the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.
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