This Tender Land

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ΓÇ£If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing,youΓÇÖll love This Tender Land…This story is as big-hearted as they come.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöParade The unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. In the summer of 1932on the banks of MinnesotaΓÇÖs Gilead RiverOdie OΓÇÖBanion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training Schoola pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendentΓÇÖs wrath. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crimehe and his brotherAlberttheir best friendMoseand a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoeheading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one summerthese four orphans journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adriftfrom struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classicThis Tender Land is an enthrallingbig-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us allhaunts our dreamsand makes us whole.