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The author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork O'Connor series-a book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo through youth and shape our lives forever.

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Rich with detail of setting and sense of place, thoughtful, provocative, and often lyrical and poetic, WKK tells a marvelous coming-of-age story and the relationship between a father and son in the face of tension and animosity in a world about to change drastically.

Krueger gently teaches readers about Indian culture and the history of the oppression that has existed since Europeans first landed in North America and how the native people were, in many ways, treated worse than the enslaved Africans and their descendants.

This is a book you simultaneously can't put down and don't want to end. The…

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