![]() Though Ladydi’s fate is uncertain at the end of the novel, her story offers the hopeful possibility of social mobility for the subjugated out of the conditions of abuse and into more equitable environments. ![]() Prayers for the Stolen emphasizes the challenges of escaping the conditions and circumstances a person is born into, and the associations people construct between homeland, history, social capital, and identity in order to rationalize the subjugation of entire communities. However, her mother and half-sister manage to rescue her, and they set off to pursue a new life in America. Ladydi ends up living in an abandoned house in Acapulco because her employers have also been murdered, and she is later accused of Mike's crime, arrested, and sent to a prison in Mexico City. On the drive to Acapulco, she witnesses her friend's brother, Mike, murdering a drug dealer and his daughter. Ladydi manages to survive and leaves her village to work as a nanny in Acapulco. Although the girls try to make themselves ugly to avoid attention, one of Ladydi's friends is still kidnapped. ![]() ![]() ![]() This area is dominated by drug traffickers who also steal girls for sex trafficking. The narrator and protagonist of Prayers for the Stolen, Ladydi Martinez, tells the story of her life growing up in the mountain village of Chulavista, Mexico. ![]()
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