Introducing The Violence: My Family's Colombian War

The May Audacious Book Club Selection

Early in Dead Boys: A Memoir, a series of linked essays, Adriana E. Ramírez talks about watching a pirated news feed from Mexico and seeing nine bodies hanging from a pedestrian bridge. Ramírez writes that she is familiar with the bridge; she has driven across it many times. As she listens to a news anchor list the names of the dead, Ramírez realizes th…