Shards of Silence Format:Hardcover “A compelling and quirky tale

“A compelling and quirky tale of love and negotiating early adulthood in New York City

Keita’s poems intimately reveal how Black culture can be inherited and built upon complex relationships where love and pain are inextricably linked

and exquisitely crafted survival story reveals the truth of America’s colonial history in a powerful new way—visceral and breathtaking

and what do we lose when we lose each other

Shards of Silence Format:Hardcover “A compelling and quirky taleIn 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 grandmothers 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 Mexicoespecially his great grandmother, MildredDerrick