Read August 2021 - Zoom Reading Circle
A wonderful book. Kind of a mix of Huckleberry Finn and The Odyssey with some Dickensian elements thrown in for good measure. :) A story of a journey of 4 children, escaping evil and hardship and heading toward a brighter future (they hope). They canoe down the Mississippi River intending to get to family in St. Louis. They encounter many people along the way - some good and some not - and some a very strange mix. What a fascinating story and journey. It was also a good book to read after The Beekeeper of Aleppo - not quite as intense. However, both books follow people on perilous journeys toward what they hope will be a better life. I now want to read more books by William Kent Krueger.
Quotes from the book...
I've always thought of her the way I think of a precious gem: the beauty isn't in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.
Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.
But I believe if you tell a story, it's like sending a nightingale into the air with the hope that its song will never be forgotten.
From author William Kent Krueger's website - photos that inspired the story
Why do Native people disappear from textbooks after the 1890's? - Edweek article
This Tender Land - book trailer
The Tragedy of Native American Boarding Schools - William Kent Krueger
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