Flower Traveled in My Blood

A remarkable new talent in narrative nonfiction delivers the epic true story of a group of courageous grandmothers who fought to find their grandchildren who were stolen.

In the early hours of March 24, 1976, the streets of Buenos Aires rumble with tanks as soldiers seize the presidential palace and topple Argentina's leader. The country is now under the control of a military junta, with army chief Jorge Rafael Videla at the helm. With quiet support from the United States and tacit approval from much of Argentina's people, who are tired of constant bombings and gunfights, the junta swiftly launches the National Reorganization Process or El Procesoa bland name masking their ruthless campaign to crush the political left and instill the country with ';Western, Christian' values.

The junta holds power until 1983 and decimates a generation.

One of the military's most diabolical acts is kidnapping hundreds of pregnant women. After giving birth in captivity, the women are ';disappeared,' and their babies secretly given to other familiesmany of them headed by police or military officers. For mothers of pregnant daughters and daughters-in-law, the source of their grief is twofoldthe disappearances of their children, and the theft of their grandchildren.

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