Double Teenage is about two American girls coming of age in the 90s, in a town close to the US-Mexico border. The reality of the killings of women in Juárez haunt their lives. The Femicide Machine is a searing piece of theoretical nonfiction on the systems in place that enable these murders. Making a Killing is an anthology of academic essays on Juárez covering a wide range of aspects. All are brilliant reads.
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BarbaraBB The blurb of the first book reminds me of![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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2666rubyslippersreads That cover on Making A Killing! 😠4y
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batsy @BarbaraBB Yes! That's a chunkster that's been on my TBR for awhile. 4y
batsy @rubyslippersreads It's a very striking cover! 4y
merelybookish Hmmm. Makes me wonder about the parallels to In Cold Blood... 4y
Centique Wow - I have only vaguely heard about these cases. I need to do some reading! 4y
Reggie I actually went to a panel in Las Cruces at the university where parents who had lost their daughters talked about how their daughters went missing and years later only bones would be returned that were only recognizable because of the clothes they were found with. It was very sad and there was never hope in regards to the government agencies helping them out. They often thought someone in the government was the killer. Back in the early 00‘s 4y
Reggie there had been at least 300 bodies found but I‘m sure it‘s more now. 4y
batsy @Reggie That must have been so difficult to hear. And what those parents and families have endured 💔 💔 It's devastating. All of these books make no escuses about state level involvement ... But sometimes it's like, we can know so much and yet where is the justice 4y
