{"product_id":"running-from-coyote-danalee-buhler-9780595405435","title":"Running from Coyote: A White Family Among the Navajo","description":"According to Navajo myth if a coyote crosses your path you should turn back and not continue your journey or something terrible will happen. In \u003ci\u003eRunning From Coyote: A White Family among the Navajo\u003c\/i\u003e the author spends a childhood dodging coyote. Set in Shiprock, New Mexico, the home of award-winning author Tony Hillerman's protagonist Jim Chee, the author loves life with the Navajo.  \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRunning From Coyote\u003c\/i\u003e an eccentric family from Texas moves to the Navajo Indian reservation in 1958. The author's athletic father is addicted to golf, her depressed grandfather addicted to grieving the loss of his wife, and her scatterbrained mother addicted to selling Avon to the white women who live in the schoolteacher's fenced compound. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer grandfather joins the family in 1959. He hates his new grandsons, two Navajo boys. Michael, whose mother dies in childbirth, joins the family at the age of 14-months. Eight months later, Daniel's mother gives 11-month old Daniel to a white family in the hope that they can save his life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpon the authors return to the white man's world on 1962 she and her four sisters are labeled \"nigger lovers\" and \"Jap lovers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Danalee Buhler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595405436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595405435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Danalee Buhler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48621757169919,"sku":"9780595405435","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/running-from-coyote-danalee-buhler-9780595405435","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}