{"product_id":"9781937178246","title":"The Day Is a White Tablet","description":"One week before Lee surrenders at Appomattox, Tench Traymore finds his white cousin dead on a Virginia battlefield. He sets out for home in south Georgia on his cousin's horse, his cousin's journal strapped to his chest, determined to carry on the narrative.\u003cp\u003eTench, an educated, green-eyed, black youth, must fight to stay alive in the final days of the American Civil War. Tench's first-person account offers both an accurate history of the dissolution of the Confederacy and his own coming of age, as his quest gives meaning to the treacherous journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Through the eyes of a mixed-race youth, Jill Fletcher Pelaez takes us on a danger-filled journey in the final days of the Civil War. . . . As Tench confronts evil and obstacles, he also encounters honor, piety, and dignity.\" -Donna Meredith, author, The Glass Madonna and The Color of Lies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An action-packed historical fiction....Tench, a black Confederate with green eyes, tries to get home during the last days of the War Between the States....a gripping book.\" -Charles Kelly Barrow, editor, Black Confederates and Black Southerners in Confederate Armies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WiDo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49978007027952,"sku":"9781937178246","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937178246","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}