{"product_id":"no-need-to-kill-fleas-jacqueline-loweree-9781966772705","title":"No Need to Kill Fleas with a Gun: Tales of a drug mule girl in Ciudad Juárez","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNo Need to Kill Fleas with a Gun\u003c\/i\u003e, a young girl guides us through the most intimate and deeply cherished contours of growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border. This is not a work offiction, it is an exercise of memory. Ten true stories from the banks of the Río Bravo illustrate, almost anthropologically, what it means to live among \"anecdotes, sayings, food, laughter, and... insatiable sorrow\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author introduces us to people like Moy, a \u003ci\u003etortero\u003c\/i\u003e murdered for being gay; Chachito, a goat slaughtered in front of his best friend; Paquita la del Barrio, a feminist icon; Doña María, an elderly woman who feared dying alone and burned; Canelo, a flea-ridden guard dog; and Ciudad Juárez, not as a literary backdrop, but as a character in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructural violence is not a passing theme but the thread that ties these ten stories together, revealing a different face in every conflict. The childhood of \"a mule girl\" is not innocent, rather it is wounded, it is memory that refuses to be buried. With a voice both sharp and tender, Jacqueline Loweree offers a book that serves as testimony, tribute, and reckoning with the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacqueline Loweree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 196677270X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781966772705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nueva York Poetry Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d","brand":"Jacqueline Loweree","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437560115455,"sku":"9781966772705","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_533948c3-d90c-4d21-bb1d-f19989418a57.jpg?v=1777162629","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/no-need-to-kill-fleas-jacqueline-loweree-9781966772705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}