Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558855084 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 346 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Offering a powerful depiction of social justice and serial murder on the U.S.-Mexican border, this is an essential purchase for both mystery and Hispanic fiction collections." --Library Journal"Gaspar de Alba not only crafts a suspenseful plot but tackles prejudice in many of its ugly forms: against gays, against Hispanics, against the poor. An in-your-face, no-holds barred story full of brutality, graphic violence, and ultimately, redemption." --Booklist
A story that needs to be told Sage320 The sad fact is that the stories that should receive the most coverage in the news often go practically ignored. Since 1993 an atrocity has been going on at the US-Mexican border that has left hundreds of women raped, mutilated and dead while very little has been done to solve the crimes and stop whoever is behind them. This is the setting that Gaspar De Alba has chosen for her Lambda Award winning novel as she tells the story of Ivon Vill. Close to home MAGDALENA O LUGO I ordered this for a student so I have not read it but she likes it.. Michael H. Lewis said predictable. It did not take more than a few chapters to fiqure this book out. She is not a complicated writer, filling in pages of meaningless material. Who cares if Ivon is a lesbian, it did not have anything to do with the murders. In fact it did not make her character any more interesting. Ivons mother did not seem to belong at all , only being some crazy women who beat her children. I can see a follow up book soon, because the killers were not fou
She is also the editor of Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (Palgrave / Macmillan, 2003). An Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and English at the University of California, Los Angeles, Gaspar de Alba is a native of the El Paso/Juárez border. . She has been researching the crimes since 1998 and organized an international conference on the murders at UCLA in 2003. AL
The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. 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 Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. 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.. Despite the sharp warnings she gets from family, friends, and nervous officials, Ivon's investigation moves her deeper and deepe