This Tender Land -- William Kent Krueger

from waldhaus1

My yardstick for a writer is how much I as a reader care about the characters. These characters came to life for me and I cared about them a lot. The protagonist's name, Odysseus, clearly is a tip of the hat to the Homeric epic as is the entire book. There are many parallels but it is truly a sto...

from MugsyNoir

One of the few books I've read where when I finished it I wanted to turn to page one and start over. Told with great empathy and poignancy, William Kent Krueger, has written a great adventure of a “family” of four who each seeks out their place in the world and their relationship with God.

from

When one reads a book that is almost 500 pages, and upon completion is not ready for the book to end, in fact could continue on for another 500 pages, then you know a book deserves 5 stars. At least for me. Four children, three horribly mistreated at the Lincoln school for Indians, make a life ch...

from Al-G

I don't give many 5 star ratings - a book has to really be exceptional in my view before I will go to 5 stars. This one was that and more. My first WKK book was a Cork O'Connor mystery and it was really good and I will certainly read some more of those. But then I read "Ordinary Grace" and was am...

from EllenH

Read this for book club. While the story and characters were timely and very interesting, I was a little put off by the complicated adult language given the boys, I kept forgetting that this story was being told by one of the characters as an adult. It was disconcerting at times. But mostly was a...