While Argentina experienced seven separate coups between 1930 and the reestablishment of democracy in 1983, it is the country’s “Dirty War” that is perhaps the most infamous.

This period, which spanned 1976-1983, was one of brutal repression, with those deemed “subversive” systematically disappeared, tortured and murdered by the nation’s military government. Before reading Haley Cohen Gilliland’s gripping, true narrative, A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children , I hadn’t realized that among the missing were hundreds of women who were pregnant or were kidnapped alongside their infants.

Gilliland’s first book (of many, we should hope) tells the remarkable story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (“Grand

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