{"product_id":"keep-going-the-art-of-perseverance-9781402736070","title":"Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrandfather says this: In life there is sadness as well as joy  losing as well as winning  falling as well as standing  hunger as well as plenty  bad as well as good. I do not say this to make you despair  but to teach youthat life is a journey sometimes walked in light and sometimes in shadow. Grandfather says this: Keep going.  From bestselling Native American writer Joseph Marshall III (The Lakota Way  The Journey of Crazy Horse) comes a beautifully packaged  inspirational guide deeply rooted in Lakota spirituality.  These thought-provoking lessons  passed down by author Joseph Marshall IIIs own Lakota grandfather  will inspire the hundreds of thousands who already know his workand will tap into the market that has embraced such books as Oriah Mountain Dreamers The Invitation. When a young mans father dies  he turns to his sagacious grandfather for comfort. Together they sit underneath the familys cottonwood tree  and the grandfather shares his perspective on life  the perseverance it requires  and the pleasure and pain of the journey. Filled with dialogue  stories  and recollections  each section focuses on a portion of the prose poem Keep Going and provides commentary on the text. Readers will draw comfort  knowledge  and strength from the Grandfathers wise wordsjust as Marshall himself did. Praise for The Journey of Crazy Horse: \"Marshalls gloriously poetic and sweeping chronicle ushers in a new genre of American history--indigenous  oral  formerly suppressed  a thrilling narrative based upon personal stories and hidden accounts only a trusted Indian scholar could collect and only a true-born writer could dramatize....A tour de force.\"--Peter Nabokov  professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Culture at UCLA and author of Native American Testimony \"This story of treachery and honor has never been told better. Crazy Horse is no longer merely a symbol for the Oglala  or even for the Lakota  but has become an inspiration for all. Marshalls scholarship is meticulous  ihs passion gripping. T his is as composed and crafted as a fine novel.\"--Dr. Roger Welsch  anthropologist  author  and former University of Nebraska professor \"...a remarkable portrait of a remarkable man.\"--Colin G. Calloway  professor of history and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies  Dartmouth College Praise for The Lakota Way \"It is rare to find a storyteller who is also a natural healer...ith gentle humor and fierce beliefs  Joseph Marshall places his personal and magical words just so into the human heart  reminding us all through the stiring of memory that full capacity and beauty are still in each soul...\"--Clarissa Pinkola Estes  Ph.D  author of Women who Run with the Wolves and La Curandera\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789762289717,"sku":"ByrdShop_140273607X","price":22.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781402736070.jpg?v=1784697035","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/keep-going-the-art-of-perseverance-9781402736070","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}