Odie and Albert know sign language because their mother was deaf, and they have taught Mose to sign. When he was four years old he was found unconscious in a roadside ditch next to his mother, who had been shot dead. Odie and Albert are friends with Moses Washington, called Mose, an Indian. The brothers have been the only white children at the school since they were orphaned when their father was killed four years earlier. Odie O’Banion, the first-person narrator, is 12 years old that summer. The novel opens at the Lincoln Indian Training School on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota in the summer of 1932. Set in the summer of 1932, the book tells the story of four orphaned children traveling down the Gilead River in Minnesota in search of the Mississippi River, which they hope will transport them to a better life. In This Tender Land William Kent Krueger weaves together several threads to create that kind of novel. Only a great novel can manage to be both chilling and heart-warming.
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