{"product_id":"in-the-country-of-empty-arturo-madrid-9781595341310","title":"In the Country of Empty Crosses: The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico","description":"Arturo Madrid's homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New Mexico is a land of struggle and dispute, a place in which Madrid's ancestors predate those who landed at Plymouth Rock. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the Country of Empty Crosses\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is Madrid's complex yet affirming memoir about lands before the advent of passable roads--places such as Tierra Amarilla, San August? [insert \"u\" and note accent on I], and Los Fuertes that were once among the most remote in the nation. Madrid grew up in a family that was doubly removed from the community: as Hispanic Protestants, they were a minority among the region's politically dominant Anglo Protestants and a minority within the overwhelmingly Catholic Hispanic populace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMadrid writes affectingly of the tensions, rifts, and disputes that punctuated the lives of his family as they negotiated prejudice and racism, casual and institutional, to advance and even thrive as farmers, ranchers, and teachers. His story is affectionate as well, embracing generations of ancestors who found their querencias--their beloved home places--in that beautiful if sometimes unforgiving landscape. The result is an account of New Mexico unlike any other, one in which humor and heartache comfortably coexist. Complemented by stunning images by acclaimed photographer Miguel Gandert -- ranging from intimate pictures of unkempt rural cemeteries to New Mexico's small villages and stunning vistas -- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Country of Empty Crosses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a memoir of loss and survival, of hope and redemption, and a lyrical celebration of an often misunderstood native land and its people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arturo Madrid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1595341315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781595341310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trinity University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 7.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Arturo Madrid","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938526691583,"sku":"9781595341310","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e25be4c8-6655-49b2-bc12-758081de3a17.jpg?v=1681436209","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-country-of-empty-arturo-madrid-9781595341310","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}