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This Tender Land

Name: This Tender Land
Author: William Kent Krueger

by William Kent Krueger

2019•Adventure•464 pages

Taste attributes: adventuredramahistoricalrealisticlinearbig & variedemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivalcoming of agerescue/escape/jeopardy

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Boxlist takeA wide-ranging adventure novel, grounded rather than fantastical. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Open Library rating

4.0 / 5

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About This Book

In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, Odie O’Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendent’s wrath.

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

AdventureDramaHistoricalHuman spirit/resilience/survivalComing of ageRescue/escape/jeopardy

Subjects

MississippiOrphansRunaway childrenVoyages and travelsOff-reservation boarding schoolsIndians of North AmericaDepressions

Details

Author: William Kent Krueger
Published: 2019
Pages: 464
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Source: Open Library

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