I was blown away by the reality within the words and gut punched by tragedy.

This book transported me to a different time period, a different life, and whole different mind set. To say I'm suffering from one is an understatement. The Urban Dictionary's definition of a Book Hangover is: When you've finished a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you're still living in the world of the book. history.'―starred, School Library Journal Read more The work resonates with fear, hope, love, and the importance of memory.Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez.gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. 'This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. 'Pérez deftly weaves unflinchingly intense narrative.A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism.'―starred, Kirkus Reviews ' layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes down like it should, with pain and fascination, like a mix of sugary medicine and artisanal moonshine.'- The New York Times Book Review And the consequences can be explosive.Īshley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion-the worst school disaster in American history-as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone.

And the consequences can be explosive.Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion-the worst school disaster in American history-as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people.'This is East Texas, and there's lines. SYNOPSIS: 'This is East Texas, and there's lines. Review Source: De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for ChildrenĪlso by this author: The Knife and the Butterfly Published by Lerner Publishing Group on 2015 Ultimately, this powerful novel asks: What are we willing to sacrifice for friendship and love? For defying an unjust society? For working to bring about racial justice? Out of the Darkness is highly recommended.

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