A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Powerful ... Absorbing and lucid ... [Gilliland] brilliantly conveys the grim and tangled history of Argentina’s last five decades through the people who experienced it up close.
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Deeply reported ... Gilliland focuses on the ordeal of a single shattered family, widens her lens to include other cases, and embeds her tale in a crisp account of recent Argentinian history ... Argentina’s lessons for the current moment are multiple: When tyrants threaten, more people and institutions may cower than resist; the loss of checks on state violence can be catastrophic; and no one knows who the next victim will be.
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An enthralling history of a human rights movement whose mission remains as urgent as ever ... Reads like a Cold War thriller, replete with betrayals, intrigue, and elaborate schemes .. Deft ... Cathartic, even exultant ... Lays bare the limits of truth and reconciliation.
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