Out of Darkness


  • A Q&A with English Alumna Ashley Hope Pérez, Author of ‘Out of Darkness’

    In March 1937 a gas leak caused a massive explosion that killed almost 300 children and teachers at a school in New London, Texas. Amidst the backdrop of this catastrophic event, a Mexican-American girl falls in love with a Black boy in a segregated oil town. In a town where store signs mandate “No Negroes,…

    A Q&A with English Alumna Ashley Hope Pérez, Author of ‘Out of Darkness’