Odie spends his days doing school-enforced manual labor, playing his contraband harmonica-and landing in detention. The book begins with Odie, a young boy with a good heart but a penchant for getting in trouble, who suffers alongside his brother Albert at a cruel boarding school. It was with this in mind that I picked up This Tender Land, a nature-filled adventure story set in rural Minnesota. Give me a character canoeing down a river, or a vivid description of changing fall leaves, and I am, shall we say, a happy camper.
As this is neither practical (I have no outdoorsy skills) nor feasible (the woods are very far away), I like turning to the next best thing: books set in the great outdoors.
Because I live in a city that’s more concrete than grass, I sometimes go weeks without spending time in nature-which means I fantasize about tossing my phone down a subway grate and setting off into the woods a lot.
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