![]() And the hopes and fears of this new life are revealed. Each short vignette is set in one perspective at a time. Henry changes her siblings’ names to Robbie and Carrie Smith and expects her to keep his house, get to know the church wives, and learn how to cook proper southern food and biscuits, not tortillas. New London is an oil town, a white town, and Naomi is immediately aware of how she doesn’t fit. From the beginning, the rules are clear no Spanish at school or around town watch where you go attend church revivals and socialize with the locals. ![]() ![]() Naomi Vargas moves to New London from San Antonio with her twin brother and Sister, Beto and Cari, to live with their father, her stepfather, Henry Smith. The story encompasses a school year, oscillating between the third person points of view of a family hoping to make a new start. This is how the story begins, with a sense of impending doom, and this feeling of dread pervades the rest of the novel, the “before”, leading up to the “after.” The narrative voice embodies the horror, the grief, and the growing need for someone to blame. ![]() ![]() Volunteers move debris, collect the severed limbs of school children, and build caskets for the dead. This compelling novel is rooted in history, and the book begins with the aftermath of the 1937 New London school explosion in East Texas and a town reeling from disaster. Out of Darkness is broken into parts: before the disaster and after. ![]()
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