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Book Signing: Dr. Alicia Gaspar de Alba Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies DATE: Thursday, April 21st, 2005 WHERE: Hershey Hall 1648 TIME: 12pm **Event Flyer**

It's the summer of 1998, and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped on the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants of both sides of the border. From acclaimed poet and prose-writer Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders is a gripping mystery novel that ponders the effects of patriarchy, gender identity, border culture, transnationalism, and globalization on an international crisis. RSVP for lunch at women@women.ucla.edu (from www.women.ucla.edu)

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