This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

Excellent story that compassionately reveals the travails endured by young people interred in a boarding school for Native American Youth stolen from their parents to be indoctrinated in the "values" of the dominant White culture. A group of four children, three white orphans and one Native American escape the school and go on a journey. The time period is the early thirties and the horrific consequences of the Depression become a part of their story as they make their way South in a boat. The young narrator is an appealing character whose storytelling weaves its way into the heart of the reader, at least this reader. Recommended.

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

A middle-aged couple loses their home, and the husband is newly diagnosed with a terminal illness but their kids are launched so they decide to walk the South West Coast Path in Great Britain. Descriptions of nature are often lyrical even as the narrative also describes the difficulties of wild camping along the trail, surviving on a low budget barely adequate to cover the cost of food, and enduring cold and wind buffeting their tent. Infused with thoughtful reflection on their experience of life, and their enduring love for one another, this is a poignant travelogue.