![]() ![]() Agent: Claudia Ballard, WME Entertainment. ![]() Clement treats the brutal material honestly but not sensationally, conveying the harshest moments secondhand rather than directly, and ultimately allows Ladydi to continue to hope. Ladydi, thinking to save herself from Paula’s fate, decides to accept an offer of work from Mike, her best friend Maria’s brother, as a nanny in Acapulco, where, as he tells her, “people are rich, rich, rich.” However, Ladydi soon discovers that in a corrupt system, any apparent opportunity comes with hidden traps. The community is shocked when one kidnapped girl-the transcendently beautiful, now near-catatonic Paula-manages to return. ![]() Most of the men from Ladydi’s village left a long time ago. Infamous for the authoritarian rule of the drug lords, the town witnesses girls getting trafficked by criminals as a common occurrence. Ladydi, named after Princess Diana, spends her childhood dressed as a boy, as do all the girls from her village, since they will otherwise be kidnapped and forced into prostitution or drug smuggling. Directed by Tatiana Huezo, ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ is a Mexican drama film that centers around three best friends, Ana, Paula, and Maria, who grows up in a Mexican town controlled by drug cartels. Despite its social significance, the book doesn’t read like homework Clement is more a poet than a documentarian, and the girls and women of the village she chronicles are complex individuals. is an expose of the hideously dangerous lives girls lead in the Mexican state of Guerrero. In 2015, she was elected as the first woman president of PEN International. The first novel from the American-born but Mexico-based Clement, president of PEN Mexico, to be published in the U.S. Jennifer Clement is an American-Mexican author. ![]()
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