And when the black SUVs roll through town, Ladydi and her friends burrow into holes in their backyards like animals, tucked safely out of sight. 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. AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny, and smart.Beguiling, and even crazily enchanting.”-Francisco Goldman, New York Times Book Review FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER PRIZE 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 “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.
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