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>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.</P><P>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><ul><li><I><B>A </B></I><B>Kirkus Reviews</B><I><B> Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)</B></I></li><li><I><B>A </B></I><B>Kirkus Reviews</B><I><B> Best YA Book of 2024 </B></I></li><li><I><B>A 2025 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Outstanding Merit</B></I></li><li><I><B>Selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2025</B></I></li><li><I><B>Selected for the 2025 Crawford Award Honour List</B></I></li><li><I><B>A 2025 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated Young Adult Book Prize Honor Book</B></I></li></ul>