![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was this information that led to the book: I imagined a rabbit warren of little girls and the act of being buried alive at age six or seven. A woman who had left Guerrero to work in Mexico City told me how the women in her community dug holes in the ground where they could hide their daughters while men drove around the countryside looking for girls to steal. ![]() Guerrero is a prominent area of Mexico for the cultivation of poppies that are processed into heroin for US drug consumption, and where thousands of poor, marginalized, and often indigenous Mexicans are employed. In 2014, after ten years of interviewing women in Mexico, many of whom were the wives and girlfriends of drug traffickers, I published Prayers for the Stolen, which deals with the stealing and trafficking of girls in the state of Guerrero. Tatiana takes part one of my three-part book and creates a complete world, keeping the story in the rural community and creating a new ending, while my narrative branches off to Acapulco and Santa Martha Acatitla, Mexico City’s women’s prison. Also known as Noche de Fuego, Tatiana’s movie-now streaming on Netflix-has garnered many accolades and is Mexico’s official entry for the Academy Awards. At the Cannes Film Festival in July, Tatiana Huezo premiered the feature film Prayers for the Stolen, loosely based on my novel of the same name. ![]()
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