![]() ![]() ![]() Louis”) weakens the story’s impact, Krueger’s enjoyable riff on The Odyssey will satisfy fans of American heartland epics. Though overly sentimental prose (“With every turn of the river, we were changing, becoming different people, and for the first time I understood that the journey we were on wasn’t about getting to St. Krueger keeps the twists coming, and the constant threat of danger propels the story at a steady clip. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. The encounters bring the era to life as the children meet traveling evangelists, Dust Bowl farmers in shanty towns, and ghettoized Jews in the flats of St. Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford Universitybefore being kicked out for radical activities. ![]() After Odie kills the teacher who’s been abusing him, the four children escape down the Minnesota River in a canoe, meeting both friends and foes along the way as they try to evade capture, find a home, and hold onto the bond between them. There, along with dozens of Native American children, they endure brutal abuse and neglect the only bright spot is their friendships with Mose, a teenage Sioux, and Emmy, a precocious girl whose mother, a teacher at the school, is killed by a tornado. ![]() Storytelling scamp Odysseus “Odie” O’Banion and his more rule-abiding brother Albert are shipped off to the Lincoln Indian Training School after their bootlegger father is murdered. This lively but heavy-handed adventure from Krueger ( Ordinary Grace) follows four orphans as they search for safety in Depression-era Minnesota. ![]()
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