TY - BOOK AU - Almada,Selva AU - McDermott,Annie TI - Dead girls SN - 9781916277847 PY - 2020/// CY - Edinburgh, Scotland PB - Charco Press KW - Teenage girls KW - Argentina KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Women KW - Crimes against KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - First published in Spain as Chicas muertas by Random House Mandadori (Argentina) N2 - "In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year old María Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and 20-year old Sarita Mundín, whose disfigured body was found on a river bank. Almada takes these and other tales of abused women to weave together a dry, straightforward portrait of gender violence that surpasses national borders and speaks to readers' consciousness all over the world."--Amazon ER -