. . "Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)" . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . "Love stories" . "If I die in Juárez" . . . "If I die in Juárez"@en . "Love stories"@en . . . . . . . "Duarte's latest novel is based on a string of real-life murders in Ciudad Jurez in the 1990s. Forced out of the house by her alcoholic mother, 13-year-old Evita takes to the streets, glimpsing newspaper columns about the murders, while struggling to survive. Petra, Evita's comely 19-year-old cousin, exchanges the country life for gritty Jurez to raise money for her ailing father. An acquaintance of Petra, Mayela, a 12-year-old Tarahumara Indian, lives in an orphanage where her artistic talent is discovered." . . .