Shards of Silence gardening Jason Mancini

Jason Mancini

The Seed Keeper invokes the strength that women

bilingual account

until he stumbles into a corrupted town and a city of talking crows that push him to move beyond his lost memories

to her beginnings in the Native rights movement

Shards of Silence gardening Jason ManciniIn his first YA novel, award winning author Brian Lee Young (Din) bridges the generational divide between a Navajo teen at an elite prep school and his great grandmother's experience at a federal boarding school for Indigenous students. The book is an eye opening call for community healing and a profound coming of age story. Even if it hurts to leave behind his friends and family in Navajo, New Mexico especially his great grandmother, Mildred Derrick