Sylvia Aguilar-Zeleny

This book takes place in Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, right across the US border and the city of El Paso, near or in a huge garbage dump. Three women's lifre revolve around this dump, one because she is actually living in and from the dump, one a former prostitute and current madam (BTW is there no other word for this?!) who welcomes new girls seeking to flee the lives they come from and make mony, and a researcher who studies the impact of the dump on people around.

This is a short book with short chapters which reads very fast. At first I wasn't too much into it. The monologues of the madam in particular felt a bit clumsy. However, in the last third, when the lives of the three women start coming together (which is not a spoiler for this kind of book I guess), I found myself really wanting to know how it ends.… (altro)