{"product_id":"9781466862913","title":"Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.--the staunch and gentle man known to thousands in black churches throughout the South as the Singing Evangelist and to one white reporter as \"the Colored Billy Graham\"--is trying to compose his own obituary on what will be the last day of his life. In doing so, he looks back over that life--from his childhood in rural northern Mississippi to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, from tears of humiliation to songs of celebration and triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eDo Lord Remember Me \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in 1984, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times \u003c\/i\u003ecompared it to Alex Haley's \u003ci\u003eRoots\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsday \u003c\/i\u003edescribed it as \"exquisitely crafted,\" \u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003eas \"distinguished,\" the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer \u003c\/i\u003eas \"riveting,\" and the \u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain-Dealer \u003c\/i\u003edeclared \"every page has something worth remembering.\" Thirty years later and now a classic, Julius Lester's \u003ci\u003eDo Lord Remember Me \u003c\/i\u003eis an eloquent and deeply moving story about a black family's dignified struggle for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144077983984,"sku":"9781466862913","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466862913_p0.jpg?v=1769891588","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466862913","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}