This tender land reviews7/5/2023 All three boys dote on her little girl, Emmy. Frost–a teacher who has them come help at her farm and shows them some motherly love and tenderness. The one ray of goodness and decency they have a Lincoln School is Mrs. Their friend “Mose” is a Sioux whose tongue was cut out when his mother was killed. They are in the school due to the local orphanages being filled to capacity or beyond. Odie and Albert are not “Indians” like the other children. Conditions at the school are bleak and brutal–truly a Dickensian setting. It is 1932 and the Depression has struck America. Orphan Odie O’Banion and his older brother, Albert, are sent to live at the Lincoln School–a boarding school for the “assimilation” of Native American Children in Minnesota. I listened to the audio version which was superb. Hearing it compared to Where the Crawdads Sing did it for me. And the cracks? That’s how the light gets inside of us.” Sister Eve My Interestįor once it was the right hype at the right moment that got my attention. “Only God is perfect…To the rest of us, he gave all kinds of wrinkles….If we were perfect the light he shines on us would just bounce off.
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