From award-winning Mexican author Ricardo&nbsp;Chávez&nbsp;Castañeda and the visionary Mexican designer Alejandro Magallanes&nbsp;comes a&nbsp;horror story and ghost story that is both daringly and beautifully told in word and image. There are stories so terrible that we tremble to hear even a whisper of them. Even more terrible, some of them are true.This is one such story, a story of our deepest inhumanity--one that confronts&nbsp;the history of violence against children, and through its young narrator attempts to find a way out.&nbsp;A horror story and ghost story told as much through art as through text,&nbsp;The Book of Denial&nbsp;is an antidote to our collective silence. By uplifting storytelling as a means of understanding the past and shaping the future, it is also--improbably--a beacon of hope. <div dir="auto">Written by genre-defying Mexican author Ricardo Chávez&nbsp;Castañeda,&nbsp;The Book of Denial&nbsp;is a dark and powerful story within a story, illustrated with a striking graphic sensibility by Alejandro Magallanes and translated by Lawrence Schimel.</div> <div dir="auto">This is the third book to appear under Unruly, an imprint of picture books for older readers, and will include a short note to readers about how it continues to build this experimental framework of visually complex, sophisticated picture books for teens and adults.</div>

The Book of Denial

Teen & Young Adult

Chávez Castañeda, Ricardo

Literature & Fiction

Unruly/Enchanted Lion

A Beautiful Darkness

ONDJAKI

Historical Fiction

We Go to the Park: A Picture Book

Stridsberg, Sara

A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in Our Beautiful Darkness, a fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator António Jorge Gonçalves. Translated from Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann The light goes out suddenly. And in this absence of light, a pair of teenagers bare their souls. Into the warm silence of the night, they share a conversation filled with their stories and dreams... and maybe even a first kiss. Set against the backdrop of the civil war that ravaged Angola in the 1990s, this book weaves the country's history with a teenage boy's family stories. But when a power outage shrouds the neighborhood in darkness, everyday realities fade away... As the boy and a girl sit talking in the backyard, memory gives way to imagination and vulnerability, and the space between them becomes charged with emotional electricity. Their resulting conversation is both a meditation on the storytelling impulse and a gripping narrative of first love that, through its particulars, ascends to the universal.

Our Beautiful Darkness

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