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This tender land krueger7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() This book is everything I want in a fall read: warm, heartfelt, and chock-full of observations on the natural world. When circumstances force Odie, Albert, and two fellow orphans to escape, their getaway takes them on a grand adventure, crossing paths with strangers and witnessing the effects of the Great Depression. ![]() Odie spends his days doing school-enforced manual labor, playing his contraband harmonica-and landing in detention. ![]() The book begins with Odie, a young boy with a good heart but a penchant for getting in trouble, who suffers alongside his brother Albert at a cruel boarding school. It was with this in mind that I picked up This Tender Land, a nature-filled adventure story set in rural Minnesota. Give me a character canoeing down a river, or a vivid description of changing fall leaves, and I am, shall we say, a happy camper. As this is neither practical (I have no outdoorsy skills) nor feasible (the woods are very far away), I like turning to the next best thing: books set in the great outdoors. Because I live in a city that’s more concrete than grass, I sometimes go weeks without spending time in nature-which means I fantasize about tossing my phone down a subway grate and setting off into the woods a lot. ![]()
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