Includes a fascinating author's note detailing the process of research and writing about voices that have largely been excluded from historical accounts. The novel re-contextualized contemporary issues of race providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America. Race, romance, and family converge in this riveting novel that transplants Romeo and Juliet to a bitterly segregated Texas town. Ashley Hope Pérez published Out of Darkness in 2015 to critical acclaim. Can their love survive both prejudice and tragedy? Naomi and Wash dare to defy the rules, and the New London school explosion serves as a ticking time bomb in the background. (ALA) kicked off National Library Week with the release of its highly anticipated list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2022 and the State of America’s Libraries Report, which tells the story of how libraries are innovating and adapting to. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. ALA Releases Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2022 List. These teens know the town's divisive racism better than anyone. Description A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death.Ī Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year
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