![]() ![]() In Guerrero the drug lords are kings, and mothers disguise their daughters as sons, or when that fails they “make them ugly”-cropping their hair, blackening their teeth, anything to protect them from the rapacious grasp of the cartels. School is held sporadically, when a volunteer can be coerced away from the big city for a semester. Here in the shadow of the drug war, bodies turn up on the outskirts of the village to be taken back to the earth by scorpions and snakes. ![]() ![]() In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men have left to seek opportunities elsewhere. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny, and smart. Beguiling, and even crazily enchanting.”-Francisco Goldman, New York Times Book ReviewįINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER PRIZE “ Prayers for the Stolen gives us words for what we haven’t had words for before, like something translated from a dream in a secret language. The haunting novel of love and survival that inspired Mexico’s official submission for International Feature Film-now shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards® and streaming on Netflix ![]()
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