Desert Blood: The Ju?rez Murders

Desert Blood: The Ju?rez Murders
by Alicia Gaspar De Alba

Desert Blood: The Ju?rez Murders
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Author: Alicia Gaspar De Alba
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-31
ISBN: 1558855084
Number of pages: 346
Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Book Reviews of Desert Blood: The Ju?rez Murders

Book Review: no mamen
Summary: 1 Stars

"historical fiction" (what on earth does that mean?)

At the end, she lacks much knowledge of Mexican history to get this together.

I'm sure she's really smart. But she was bound to fail here; too political and too many stereotypes)

Summary of Desert Blood: The Ju?rez Murders

It's the summer of 1998 and for five years, over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Ju??rez, M??xico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on 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 Ju??rez. 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 blood--a conspiracy covers up the crimes that implicate everyone from the Maquiladora Association to the Border Patrol.

When Ivon's younger sister gets kidnapped in Ju??rez, Ivon knows that it's up to her to find her sister, whatever it takes. Despite the sharp warnings she gets from family, friends, and nervous officials, Ivon's investigation moves her deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of silence.

From acclaimed poet and prose-writer Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood is a gripping thriller that ponders the effects of patriarchy, gender identity, border culture, transnationalism, and globalization on an international crisis.

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