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Hardback. Condition: Good. Julia keeps lists in her diary--lists of everything she loses. When her lists end up including her dad and her home, she finds comfort in the pages, but she'll need more than that to find the truth.Twelve-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. Dad's gone a lot. Drug cartels rule the streets. They can't play outside because it isn't safe. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. When Julia's Dad disappears, she and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. She scribbles and scribbles. What's happened to her Dad? Is he going to disappear forever. …

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Julia keeps lists-lists of everything she loses. Eventually those lists include her dad and her home. Writing in her diary keeps her going but she'll need more than that to find the truth.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Julia keeps lists in her diary--lists of everything she loses. When her lists end up including her dad and her home, she finds comfort in the pages, but she'll need more than that to find the truth.Twelve-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. Dad's gone a lot. Drug cartels rule the streets. They can't play outside because it isn't safe. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. When Julia's Dad disappears, she and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. She scribbles and scribbles. What's happened to her Dad? Is he going to disappear forever. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.Aguilar Zéleny's Trash shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her guardian at the dump, a scientist doing research on the residents of the dump, and a transwoman living nearby who is the matriarch of a group of sex workers.Each one of the characters navigates family, abandonment, power, jealousy, greed, and multiple taboos around sexuality and gender violence. Their stories are linked by geography and by ideas of waste and abandonment.As Aguilar Zéleny explores these territories in her book, she asks crucial questions: Who is seen as disposable and why? How do women find their own means of survival and joy in the midst of a perilous sociopolitical context? What does it mean to live a life in a time of austerity and extreme violence? Trash is a critical intervention in Mexican literature. …

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Skipping Stones Honor Award, Multicultural Books12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Dads gone a lot. They cant play outside because it isnt safe. Drug cartels rule the streets. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. Then Dad disappears and Julia and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. Whats happened to her Dad? Julia wonders. Is he going to disappear forever? A coming-of-age story set in todays Juarez. Sylvia Zeleny is a bilingual author from Sonora, Mexico. Sylvia has published several short-story collections and novels in Spanish. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso where she is currently the Director of the Online Creative Writing MFA program. In 2016 she created CasaOctavia, a residence for women and LGBTQ writers from Latin America. Julia keeps listslists of everything she loses. Eventually those lists include her dad and her home. Writing in her diary keeps her going but shell need more than that to find the truth. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Con un tremendo despliegue de voces y empujando los limites de la forma para acceder a la memoria, Sylvia nos recuerda que las ninas podemos hacer lo que nos de la gana. --Alaide VenturaEn los cuentos que conforman Nenitas habitan diversas voces femeninas: algunas son ninas y adolescentes, otras mujeres jovenes y una sexagenaria; sus historias revelan la realidad que enfrentan fuera o dentro de casa. La silenciosa violencia domestica, el duelo, la amistad, la muerte y el amor son temas centrales en esta obra que retrata de manera intima y profunda los suenos, heridas y miedos de cada una de las protagonistas.La autora se asoma al interior del universo femenino para trazar una cartografia emocional que muestra las estructuras sociales y patriarcales, y como operan en la cotidianidad de la vida de las mujeres. La pluma de Sylvia Aguilar Zeleny logra, con su estilo inconfundible, confrontar y conmover a quien se acerque a estas nenitas.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWith a tremendous display of voices, and pushing the limits of form to access memory, Sylvia reminds us that we girls can do whatever we want. Alaide VenturaIn the short stories that conform Little Girls, there are several female voices: some are girls and teenagers, others young women, and there is also a sixty-year-old woman. Their stories expose the reality they face in and out of their homes. A quiet domestic violence, grief, friendship, death, and love are the main themes in this book, portraying the dreams, wounds, and fears of all the protagonists in an intimate and profound way.The author looks within the feminine universe to trace an emotional cartography that shows social and patriarchal structures, and how they operate in womens everyday life. With her distinctive style, Sylvia Aguilar Zelenys pen confronts and touches the heart of anyone who comes close to these little girls. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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