East Texas, 1937. There are rules here. Lines that are never meant to be crossed.
Naomi Vargas is a Mexican American girl trying to escape a past she can’t speak of. Wash Fuller is a Black teen with a quiet strength and dreams bigger than the oil fields. Their love is dangerous, unwelcome, and powerful enough to challenge the racial boundaries that define their world.
But nothing in East Texas stays secret for long. And when tragedy strikes in the form of the 1937 New London school explosion, lives will be shattered, truths will be buried, and nothing will be the same.
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Out of Darkness is a fearless, heart-wrenching story of forbidden love, deep injustice, and the legacy of silence.
