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The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos - Couverture rigide

Garcia, Angela

 
9780374605780: The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos
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ISBN 10 : 0374605785 ISBN 13 : 9780374605780
Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2024

Synopsis

The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep into the world of these small rooms, informal treatment centers for addiction and mental illness, that are spread across Mexico City’s tenements and reach into the United States. For many Mexican families desperate to keep their loved ones safe, these rooms offer an alternative to what lies beyond them - the intensifying violence surrounding the drug war. This is the first book ever written on the anexos. Garcia, who spent a decade conducting fieldwork in Mexico City, wrestles with the question of why mothers turn to them as a site of refuge even as they reproduce violence. Woven into these portraits is Garcia’s own powerful story of family, homelessness, and drugs - a blend of ethnography and memoir converging on a set of fundamental questions about the many forms and meanings that violence, love, care, family, and hope may take. Infused with profound ethnographic richness and moral urgency, The Way That Leads Among the Lost is a stunning work of narrative nonfiction, a book that will leave a deep mark on readers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Angela Garcia is an anthropologist and writer. Her first book The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande received the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing and the Pen Center USA Award for Exceptional First Book. Angela was born in New Mexico and now lives in San Francisco with her two children.

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Éditeur
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0374605785
ISBN 13 
9780374605780
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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