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The Way That Leads Among the Lost:
Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war.
New York Times Editor’s Choice
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Booklist Starred Review
“Angela Garcia is a card-carrying anthropologist and ethnographer yet her writing reads like the best of literary nonfiction.”
—Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water
“[An] astute and harrowing chronicle . . . [Garcia’s] approach is studied and intimate as she mixes memoir and academic rigor to enter the traumas of lives uprooted and too often shattered by addiction . . . Given ongoing arguments over immigration, drug use, and legalization, Garcia’s outstanding book adds compassion and insight to this important social and political discussion.”
—Booklist (starred review)
Angela Garcia
Anthropologist & Author
Angela Garcia is an anthropologist and author whose work focuses on drug addiction, violence, inequality, caregiving, medicine, and family life in the US and Mexico.
Her first book, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande, received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing and PEN Center USA’s University of California Exceptional First Book Award.
Her most recent book is The Way That Leads Among The Lost: Life, Death and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos.
Angela was born in New Mexico and now lives in San Francisco, California.
Also by Angela Garcia
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
“Stunningly written and deeply intelligent. This is anthropology at its best.” ― American Anthropologist
“Speaks volumes about the failure of US drug policy, while at the same time making a powerful case for the dangers posed by drugs.” ― Drugs and Alcohol Today