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After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes up to find himself surrounded by a familiar set of concrete walls and a locked door. Juvie again, he thinks. But he cant really remember what happened or how he got picked up. He knows his MS13 boys faced off with some punks from Crazy Crew. There were bats, bricks, chains. A knife. But he cant remember anything between that moment and when he woke behind bars. Azael knows prison, and something isnt right about this lockup. No phone call. No lawyer. No news about his brother or his homies. The only thing they make him do is watch some white girl in some cell. Watch her and try to remember. Lexi Allen would love to forget the brawl, would love for it to disappear back into the Xanax fog it came from.
About the Author
Ashley Hope Pérez is the author of three award-winning novels for young adults. Her most recent, OUT OF DARKNESS, received a 2016 Printz honor for excellence in young adult literature and the 2016 Tomás Rivera Book Award. THE NEW YORK TIMES called it a "layered tale of color lines, love and struggle" where "a tragedy, real and racial, swallows us whole." BOOKLIST named it among "50 Best YA Books of All Time." Ashley is an assistant professor of world literatures at The Ohio State University and lives in Columbus with her two sons. Visit her online at www.ashleyperez.com and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (@ashleyhopeperez) .
