If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you’ll love This Tender Land by best-selling author William Kent Krueger. He currently lives and writes in Minnesota with his family. Over the course of one fateful summer, these orphans embark on an unforgettable journey and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds.Īn in-demand speaker, Krueger frequently visits libraries, schools, universities, and more to speak about his life as a writer and how his stories resonate across diverse communities. Set in Minnesota in 1932, the story follows four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. This Tender Land, published in September 2019, is the companion novel to Ordinary Grace and was an instant New York Times bestseller. It is a brilliantly moving novel about a boy on the precipice of adulthood and has received numerous awards, including the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and was named a School Library Journal Best Book of 2013, among other accolades. Krueger is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Ordinary Grace, a standalone novel published in 2013 that follows a young teenage boy during the summer of 1961 whose world is upended when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family and he suddenly finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal. Lightning Strike, the prequel to the Cork O’Connor series, published in August 2021. His last nine novels were all New York Times bestsellers. His work has received numerous awards and accolades, including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. He is the award-winning author of the Cork O’Connor novels, a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota whose protagonist, Cork, is the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage – part Irish and part Ojibwe. William Kent Krueger is a celebrated author who lives and works in the Twin Cities.

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