This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger So this book is like a combination of The Grapes of Wrath and The Odyssey, but in Minnesota 1932. This tripped me up because I kept looking for one-to-one parallels, which distracts from the reading experience. The main character is named “Odie” and they do encounter a man with one eye, but these kids’ journey doesn’t mirror Odysseus’s journey like “Epic: The Musical“, but I think it’s just invoking the idea of a long journey with constant obstacles. No one changes from a good warrior and leader into a war-obsessed psychopath. There are clear delineations between the “good guys” and “bad guys” in…