Van Etten Book Club

Van Etten's Book Club will meet Friday May 30, 2025 at 12pm, to discuss "This Tender Land" by William Kent Krueger.

"This Tender Land", is a profoundly moving story about four orphans traveling down the Mississippi River in search of a new home.  The leader of the group is 12-year old Odie O’Banion, who along with his older brother Albert, their Sioux friend Mose, and little Emmy Frost escape from the Lincoln Indian Training Center. Odie has a vague memory of an aunt, who may represent their best hope for a new life, so off they set in search of her. This is the beginning of the adventures and misadventures they will have during the summer of 1932 while the country was in the throes of the Great Depression.  Newcomers are always welcome to join Van Etten's book club!