The tension in Naomi’s home, school, and community is palpable throughout the story and increases slowly as we’re led into the heartbreaking climax.Īshley masterfully balances the big picture and the smallest details. The fuse lit in that opening scene coils through the narrative, gaining in intensity as the story leads back to the explosion and then its aftermath. The novel opens with the explosion, and then flashes back to show how the characters’ live intersect before the event. One of the things I appreciate most was the slow burn of the narrative. I want to pull it apart and study it because it’s that good. Rodriguez: As soon as I finished Ashley’s novel, I wanted to reread it as a writer. And sometimes all it takes is an explosion.Īshley 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.Ĭindy L. But there are some forces even the most determined color lines cannot resist. Naomi Smith and Wash Fullerton know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: “This is East Texas, and there’s lines.
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