num_pages: 256
description: 12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. People say its the murder capital of the world. Dads gone a lot. They cant play outside because it isnt safe. Drug cartels rule the streets. Cars and people disappear leaving behind pet cats. Then Dad disappears and Julia and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. Whats happened to her Dad? Julia wonders. Is he going to disappear forever? A coming-of-age story set in todays Juarez.
language: English
title: The Everything I Have Lost
publisher: Cinco Puntos Press