LITERARY FICTION / CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Prayers for the Stolen

Jennifer Clement

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ABOUT THE BOOK

In the mountains of Guerrero, mothers dress their daughters as boys and make them ugly – blackening their teeth, cutting their hair short – to protect them from the drug traffickers who drive through in their SUVs and steal girls away. When the men come, the girls hide in holes dug in the ground.

Ladydi Garcia Martínez grows up in this world of women whose husbands have left for the United States, with her sharp-tongued, whisky-drinking mother and her best friends Paula, Estefani and Maria. When she leaves for Acapulco to work as a nanny for a wealthy family, she hopes to escape – but violence finds its way to her.

Fierce, funny and heartbreaking, Prayers for the Stolen is a story of friendship, survival and the resilience of girls in a country at war with itself.

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