![]() ![]() Absolutely stunning." - Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity and Michael L. ![]() "The beauty of Perez's prose and her surefooted navigation through the dangerous landscape of the East Texas oil field in the late 1930s redeem the fact that anyone who dares read this agonizing star-crossed love story will end up in about six billion numb and tiny pieces. A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism." - Kirkus Reviews Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez's young adult novel gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. Her 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. But still, there is so much hate, physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse, racism, death and grief in this novel, I just cannot see myself recommending it to friends, even to other adults. Whatever it is, Ashley Hope Pérezs new novel, Out of Darkness, fills the need. ![]() I know that you must face awful things in order to change them. Maybe Out of Darkness would face a bit of backlash in the beginning. presumably to raise awareness of the kind of foul behavior detailed in the book. When Ashley Perez published her third young adult novel in 2015, she never imagined it would be very controversial. "The last sentence in this novel is a plea to remember the story and share it. ![]()
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