Desert Blood
by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
A murder mystery. The real crime: no one's solving it.
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A Chicana academic crosses the border to investigate the disappearance of women in Ciudad Juárez and finds a city where young women are being murdered systematically and the authorities are not interested. Crime fiction as political dispatch. Gaspar de Alba uses the genre's conventions to say what journalism couldn't quite say — that this is not random violence, it is organized, and it is permitted. Essential companion to 2666 and The Daughters of Juárez.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
