![]() ![]() What lies behind them is a life of cruelty and abuse. What lies before them is the slim hope of a home in St. Together these waifs form a desperate and easy-to-cheer-for family as they push off into the Gilead en route to the Mississippi. ![]() The four travelers include Odie, our narrator, a boy who like Homer has a talent for storytelling and music his older brother Albert, whose mechanical skills get them out of many a jam Mose, a Sioux teen suffering transgenerational trauma from horrors inflicted upon his people and Emmy, a curly-headed 5-year old whose mother, one of the school’s few kind teachers, has just been killed by a tornado. Their odyssey is epic and, like Homer’s original, by turns gritty and divine. In William Kent Krueger’s latest novel, four orphaned children escape an American Indian boarding school in 1932 and canoe down the Mississippi seeking a home. ![]()
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