Out of darkness / Ashley Hope Pérez.

By:

Pérez, Ashley Hope [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Lab, [2015]Description: 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781467742023 (trade hard cover : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

F 23

LOC classification:

PZ7.P4255 Ou 2015

Summary: A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honor Book 2016 Tomás Rivera Book Award Winner "[This] 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 "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. 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. -- Adlibris

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Printed book	IES Halmstad Cultures	Fiction	F Per (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		097814677420231

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A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honor Book 2016 Tomás Rivera Book Award Winner "[This] 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 "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. 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. -- Adlibris