{"product_id":"never-name-the-dead-isbn-9781639107209","title":"Never Name the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eOld grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide  for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land  of her ancestors, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eWinter Counts. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one called her Mud in Silicon Valley.  There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa  roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her  grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong  that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. She never expected to be  plunged into a web of theft, betrayal, and murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMud  discovers a tribe in disarray. Fracking is damaging their ancestral  lands, Kiowa families are being forced to sell off their artifacts, and  frackers have threatened to kill her grandfather over his water rights.  When Mud and her cousin Denny discover her grandfather missing, accused  of stealing the valuable Jefferson Peace medal from the tribe museum—and  stumble across a body in his work room—Mud has no choice but to search  for answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMud sets out into the Wildlife Refuge, determined  to clear her grandfather’s name and identify the killer. But Mud has no  idea that she’s about to embark on a vision quest that will involve  deceit, greed, and a charging buffalo—or that a murderer is on her  trail.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eNever Name the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNever Name the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e weaves a tale of timely Native issues like fracking and poverty with a breathless mystery.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] debut wrapped in Kiowa history, stories, and culture . . . Recommended for readers of David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s \u003ci\u003eWinter Counts\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rowell’s\u003ci\u003e Never Name the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive debut, charting a woman’s return from Silicon Valley to her roots, the Kiowa tribal land in Oklahoma, where she finds a divided tribe, land threatened by fracking, and her own grandfather missing and possibly framed for a crime she knows he didn’t commit. The novel then becomes a detective story with a deep sense of place and history. Rowell brings notes of poetry to the dark tale of corruption.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCrimeReads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eNever Name the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e] may join the ranks of Native American books along the veins of Tony Hillerman and Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn\/Chee mysteries.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Greed and murder face off against the power of traditional Native American wisdom and rituals in a gripping tale set in Oklahoma on a reservation fighting to preserve the Kiowa culture and way of life. Mystical and magical, D. M. Rowell’s debut novel puts her in the ranks of Tony Hillerman, with a resolute female sleuth whose name is Mud but whose vision, purified with sacred smoke, is crystal clear.”\u003cbr\u003e—Eric Redman, award-nominated author of \u003ci\u003eBones of Hilo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Oil frackers and regalia looters meet their match in Mae \"Mud\" Sawpole, a Silicon Valley exec and former college softball slugger who returns to her Kiowa homeland in Oklahoma to settle the score.”\u003cbr\u003e—Kris Lackey, author of the Maytubby-Bond series\u003cb\u003eD.M. Rowell (Koyh Mi O Boy Dah)\u003c\/b\u003e Like her protagonist Mud, Rowell  comes from a long line of Kiowa Storytellers. After a thirty-two-year  career spinning stories for Silicon Valley startups and corporations  with a few escapes creating award-winning independent documentaries,  Rowell started a new chapter writing mysteries that share information  about her Plains Indian tribe, the Kiowas. She enjoys life in California  with her partner of thirty-seven years, their son and a feral gray cat.","brand":"Crooked Lane Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301325754597,"sku":"NP9781639107209","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781639107209.jpg?v=1767733644","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/never-name-the-dead-isbn-9781639107209","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}