Nice Companion Piece to 2666

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Nation Books editor Ruth Baldwin bought North American rights to
Charles Bowden’s new book, Miss Sinaloa: Lessons of the Dead in Mexico
via Kathleen Anderson at Anderson Literary Management. Exploring the
idea that Mexico is collapsing into a permanent culture of violence,
Bowden focuses on the border town of Ciudad Juarez, known as the place
where women disappear, and where last year alone 1,607 people were
murdered. Miss Sinaloa, a beauty queen who loses her mind after being
raped, becomes a parable for the town itself, caught in the crosshairs
of drug and immigration wars.