{"id":88481,"date":"2020-06-03T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=88481"},"modified":"2020-06-03T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:10:52","slug":"square-books-hosts-william-kent-krueger-with-this-tender-land-on-instagram-live-thursday-june-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-hosts-william-kent-krueger-with-this-tender-land-on-instagram-live-thursday-june-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Hosts William Kent Krueger with &#8220;This Tender Land&#8221; on Instagram Live Thursday, June 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Square Books invites you to join in on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/squarebooks\/\">Instagram Live<\/a> <strong>Thursday, June 11 at 7 pm CST<\/strong> as <strong>William Kent Kruger<\/strong> talks about his book,\u00a0<strong><em>This Tender Land<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling\u00a0<em>Ordinary Grace,<\/em>\u00a0winner of the <strong>Edgar Award<\/strong> for best novel, as well as eighteen <strong>Cork O\u2019Connor<\/strong> novels, including\u00a0<em>Desolation Mountain<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Sulfur Springs<\/em>. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Visit his website at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/WilliamKentKrueger.com\" target=\"_blank\">WilliamKentKrueger.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1240\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/William-K.-Kruegar-And-Book-FTR-1.jpg?fit=900%2C563\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/William-K.-Kruegar-And-Book-FTR-1.jpg?w=1240&amp;ssl=1 1240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/William-K.-Kruegar-And-Book-FTR-1.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/William-K.-Kruegar-And-Book-FTR-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C640&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/William-K.-Kruegar-And-Book-FTR-1.jpg?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the <strong>Great Depression<\/strong>, from the bestselling author of&nbsp;<em>Ordinary Grace<\/em>.<br><br>1932, Minnesota\u2014the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O\u2019Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent\u2019s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.<br><br>Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic,&nbsp;<em>This Tender Land&nbsp;<\/em>is an en\u00adthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Books invites you to join in on\u00a0Instagram Live Thursday, June 11 at 7 pm CST as William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":88488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[16511,602,16510,15215],"class_list":["post-88481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-instagram-live","tag-square-books","tag-this-tender-land","tag-william-kent-krueger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/feature-image.png?fit=926%2C324&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}