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Oct 10, 2016brangwinn rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A horror story based in reality. Texas, in 1936. People are rushing to find work at the oil wells. Naomi, of Mexican heritage, and her bi-racial twin step-siblings are sent to live with the twins’ white father in an oil camp. Naomi feels the wrath of racism and her brother and sister, deemed to be white, excel in academics. Her step-father sees her as a substitute for her mother, his dead wife. Naomi is befriended by the black son of the black school principal. Knowing that their love can’t be shown, they vow to run away….and the story turns so ugly, as the white school is blown apart by a gas explosion. There is no happy ending, and I wish I could say no one should read this book, but with politics as they are, it must be read to show what hatred can do.