{"product_id":"9781479722167","title":"I WILL NOT WEEP: A Novel of the Navajo Long Walk and Exile","description":"Author Janet Sabina says of her fictional Navajo characters:  “When the U.S.Army forces hundreds of Native American Navajo families from their homes to an internment camp in what is now New Mexico in 1864, I want readers to see the confusion, the blood, the despair.\u003cbr\u003e      “When my young protagonist is unable to protect his mother and newborn brother as he promised his father he would, I want readers to fight tears as he promises himself, ‘I will not weep.’  When he lies beside a meager fire suffering from small pox and wondering what death is like, I want readers to wonder too. \u003cbr\u003e       “I want them to feel the humiliation of a young girl who has been sold as a slave when her owner rips a dress from her body.  When she escapes with a young man of her people and builds a marriage ceremony with what she remembers from home, I want readers to celebrate with her.”","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136102416624,"sku":"9781479722167","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479722167_p0.jpg?v=1763764599","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479722167","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}