num_pages: 402
description: This is East Texas and theres lines. Lines you cross lines you dont 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.No Negroes Mexicans or dogs.They know the people who enforce them.They all decided theyd ride out in their sheets and pay Blue a visit.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.More than grief more than anger there is a need. Someone to blame. Someone to make pay.Ashley Hope Prez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosionthe worst school disaster in American historyas a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation love family and the forces that destroy people.
language: English
title: Out of Darkness
publisher: Carolrhoda Lab