Description
Twelve-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. Dad’s gone a lot. Drug cartels rule the streets. They can’t play outside because it isn’t safe. People say it’s the murder capital of the world. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. When Julia’s Dad disappears, she and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. She scribbles and scribbles. What’s happened to her Dad? Is he going to disappear forever?