‘She disappeared, she never came back, men came for her; today she would be celebrating her sixteenth birthday’. These were some of the heartbreaking statements that Jennifer Clement heard when researching her novel,Prayers for the Stolen, about the plight of missing girls in Mexico. The war between the Mexican government and the drug cartels has killed more than a hundred thousand people. This does not include the missing women – those stolen from their streets or their houses because they are young, poor and pretty, or those hiding from the violence.

Join the author as she shares the stories she heard over ten years of immersing herself in the lives of Mexican women, including rural mothers who dig holes in their cornfields to hide their daughters from traffickers. Have the drug wars become a war against women?

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