Naomi's struggle to learn how to take care of the household chores is complicated by her dark past with Henry and the overt racism she faces in the segregated town.

This gripping story centers on high-school senior Naomi, a Mexican American girl who recently arrived from San Antonio with her half siblings, twins Beto and Cari, and their father, oilfield worker Henry. 'Pérez's latest-following What Can't Wait (2011)-is a powerful work of historical fiction set in New London, Texas, that revolves around events leading up to the horrific 1937 school explosion that killed close to 300 people. 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. ' 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 'Pérez deftly weaves unflinchingly intense narrative.A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism.'starred, Kirkus Reviews 'This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. 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. 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. Printz Honor Book 'This is East Texas, and there's lines.

Out of darkness by ashley hope