Desert Blood The Juarez Murders

Name: Desert Blood The Juarez Murders
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ISBN: 9781558854468

ISBN-10: 1558854460

ISBN-13: 9781558854468

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alicia Gaspar de Alba

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It's the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped on the Chihuahua desert outside of Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants of both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora worker in Juarez. When Cecilia turns up strangled and disemboweled in the desert, Ivon is thrown into the churning chaos of abuse and murder. Even as the rapes and killings of "girls from the south" continue--their tragic stories written in desert…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 346
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English