The Book of Denial

<P><B>From award-winning Mexican author Ricardo Chávez Castañeda and the visionary Mexican designer Alejandro Magallanes comes a horror story and ghost story that is both daringly and beautifully told in word and image.</B></P><P><B><I>A </I></B><B>Kirkus Reviews<I> Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)</I></B><BR/><B><I>A </I>Kirkus Reviews<I> Best YA Book of 2024 </I></B><BR/><B><I>A 2025 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Outstanding Merit</I></B><BR/><B><I>Selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2025</I></B><BR/><B><I>Selected for the 2025 </I>Locus Magazine<I> Crawford Award Honour List</I></B><BR/><B><I>A 2025 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated Young Adult Book Prize Honor Book</I></B></P><P> 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 the history of violence against children, and through its young narrator, attempts to find a way out. A horror story and ghost story told as much through art as through text, <I>The Book of Denial</I> 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. </P><P> Written by genre-defying Mexican author Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, <I>The Book of Denial</I> is a dark and powerful story within a story, illustrated with a striking graphic sensibility by Alejandro Magallanes and translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel. </P><P> This is the third book to appear under Unruly, an imprint of picture books for older readers, and includes a short note to readers about how it continues to build this experimental framework of visually complex, sophisticated picture books for teens and adults. </P>