Letters of Love and Rebellion
It is six in the afternoon on a day in 1975 when Lydia Cacho hides in a corner of the room she shares with her two sisters, takes a small notebook her mother gave her, and writes about her first encounter with death in the form of a letter to her friend Carlos.
In handwritten letters, her first diary reveals a Mexico governed by the PRI, the description of student disappearances, police checking children's backpacks outside Colegio Madrid. The contradictions and oddities of a country gradually getting used to violence and misinformation are narrated from the perspective of a rebellious middle-class girl who escapes from her home because she refuses to accept her destiny, decreed by machismo.
In this memoir, the author delves into forty-six years of diaries, photographs, epistolary exchanges, and memorabilia that she has kept safe as if she knew she would become a pioneer of feminist journalism in Mexico. With Letters of Love and Rebellion, Lydia Cacho draws a clear portrait of a life devoted to existential search, romance, passion, poetry, and the outrage of living in an unjust world. This is her most intimate and revealing book yet.
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