Chapter by Chapter Summary and analysis of William Kent Krueger´s book This Tender Land, including detailed summaries of the chapters of the original book.

Original Book Plot:

The unforgettable story of four orphans who embark on a life-changing journey down the Mississippi River during the Great Depression.

Odie O'Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School in the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, where his lively nature earns him the superintendent's wrath. When he and his brother, Albert, their best friend, Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy are forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, they steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.

Over the course of one summer, these four orphans travel into the unknown and meet other lost souls, ranging from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. 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. It has the feel of a modern classic.

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