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This book is heartbreaking and incredible. Thank you so much to the author for writing an English-language book on the subject. Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC!
Until about a year ago, I primarily was a horror reader. Then I discovered the Argentine Mariana Enriquez's works. I devoured them, but I was lacking the background knowledge on the events and culture of Argentina. So many references to disappeared people, children, babies. I couldn't understand why the characters were so terrified to go on a car trip through their own country. I started to do some research and learned about the Abuelas, about the dictatorship, the death flights... I was shocked. How could these things happen? These things were so much worse than the fictions that they inspired.
I teared up while reading this at multiple points. Mariana writing letters and poems as a child to her stolen little brother was an especially painful point for me. Knowing that these are all real people, real stories, I want to shout to the world about what happened to them and demand justice. I'm hopeful that this book will bring more attention to these atrocities and that more English speakers will learn about them.
The author wrote everything in a narrative manner. Normally, I struggle with so many names, dates, and events, but Gilliland is very talented, and she wrote everything so that it neatly flowed and connected. The amount of research that must have gone into this is astounding.
Highly recommend.
Until about a year ago, I primarily was a horror reader. Then I discovered the Argentine Mariana Enriquez's works. I devoured them, but I was lacking the background knowledge on the events and culture of Argentina. So many references to disappeared people, children, babies. I couldn't understand why the characters were so terrified to go on a car trip through their own country. I started to do some research and learned about the Abuelas, about the dictatorship, the death flights... I was shocked. How could these things happen? These things were so much worse than the fictions that they inspired.
I teared up while reading this at multiple points. Mariana writing letters and poems as a child to her stolen little brother was an especially painful point for me. Knowing that these are all real people, real stories, I want to shout to the world about what happened to them and demand justice. I'm hopeful that this book will bring more attention to these atrocities and that more English speakers will learn about them.
The author wrote everything in a narrative manner. Normally, I struggle with so many names, dates, and events, but Gilliland is very talented, and she wrote everything so that it neatly flowed and connected. The amount of research that must have gone into this is astounding.
Highly recommend.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, War
Minor: Sexual violence, Suicide, Colonisation