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Prayers for the Stolen : a Novel by Jennifer Clement is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Prayers for the Stolen : a Novel about?
The haunting novel of love and survival that inspired Mexico's official submission for International Feature Film—now shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards® and streaming on Netflix “Prayers for the Stolen gives us words for what we haven't had words for before, like something translated from a dream in a secret language.... Beguiling, and even crazily enchanting.”—Francisco Goldman, New York Times Book ReviewFINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER PRIZE • AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLadydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny, and smart. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men have left to seek opportunities elsewhere. Here in the shadow of the drug war, bodies turn up on the outskirts of the village to be taken back to the earth by scorpions and snakes. School is held sporadically, when a volunteer can be coerced away from the big city for a semester. In Guerrero the drug lords are kings, and mothers disguise their daughters as sons, or when that fails they “make them ugly”—cropping their hair, blackening their teeth, anything to protect them from the rapacious grasp of the cartel
Who reads Prayers for the Stolen : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jennifer Clement
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804138802
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (2,960 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14