November 2025 Alumni and Friends Virtual Book Club

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

Tuesday, November 4, 11, 18
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Central Time

There is no cost to participate, but registration is required. You will need to purchase a copy of the book.

Enrollment is limited to 40. First-come; first-served. 

Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Historical Fiction (2019). “This Tender Land” is an enthralling, bighearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.

"In the summer of 1932 during the great depression on the banks of Minnesota”s Gilead River, The Lincoln Indian Training Schools, a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also the home to Odie O’Brian, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Odie and his brother Albert are the only white faces among hundreds of Native American children at the school . The story follows the children, Odie, Albert, Mose a mute young man of Sioux heritage and brokenhearted Emmy who they take with them out of pity as they flee the school in a canoe after a tragic incident involving the school’s groundskeeper. Their journey takes them through the Midwest, encountering various individuals and families struggling to survive during the economic hardship. On their journey they cross paths with displaced families, struggling farmers and traveling faith healers and lost souls of all kinds." - Summary from Goodreads

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Registration Deadline: October 28, 2025

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