![]() ![]() African-American Wash, the siblings’ one friend, is no stranger to racism either. The children seem to pass as white, but Naomi faces the town’s ugly racism. Naomi, who is Mexican, and her biracial siblings are instructed by Henry not to speak Spanish. Naomi and her twin siblings Beto and Cari are new to town, having recently been relocated from their San Antonio barrio to an oil-mining town by the twins’ father (and Naomi’s stepfather), Henry (their mother is dead). We leave this heart-wrenching and gruesome scene to jump back to September 1936. Sufficiently upset? Perez is just getting started. Let’s make it worse: bits of children’s bodies. ![]() No, check that-it manages to be worse than that: riddled with bits of bodies. Did you need some time to adjust to how completely emotionally obliterating this book will be? Too bad-welcome to page one, where we are faced with the rubble of a recently exploded school littered with bodies. The novel begins in media res (you know-in the middle of things). ![]() Whatever else you’re reading can wait a day or two for you to read this instead. Go RIGHT NOW and order this book from your library or favorite bookstore. Don’t bookmark this review as some reminder. Don’t write it down on a list and then forget about it. ![]() But you need to figure out a way to find time to read this book as soon as possible. Our TBR lists are infinite scrolls and we’ll never even touch half of what we hope to read. ![]()
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