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Clement, Jennifer. |
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Ladydi lives in Guerrero, Mexico, a
mountainous region where women wait for their men to
return, women do not want to bear female children, and
mothers work hard to make their female children ugly and
dress them in baggy clothes. Drug cartels rove through the
countryside stealing girls to use them and sell them.
Ladydi’s life seems to take a turn for the better when a
friend gets her a job in Acapulco, but later she is
implicated in a local murder through her association with
this same friend. With the odds against her, how will she
survive in modern Mexico? (Eliot Rosewater
Indiana High School Book Award, Rosie Award, 2018) |
| SUBJECTS: Mexico -- Fiction. Psychological fiction. Young women -- Fiction. |
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