{"product_id":"9781635572995","title":"City of Omens : A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCity of Omens\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Dan Werb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San Diego, its sister city across the border wall. But then something changed. Over the past ten years, Mexico’s third-largest city became one of the world’s most dangerous. Tijuana’s murder rate skyrocketed and produced a staggering number of female victims. Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could only be understood as one symptom among many. Environmental toxins, drug overdoses, HIV transmission: all were killing women at overwhelming rates. As an epidemiologist, trained to track epidemics by mining data, Werb sensed the presence of a deeper contagion targeting Tijuana’s women. Not a virus, but some awful wrong buried in the city’s social order, cutting down its most vulnerable inhabitants from multiple directions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWerb’s search for the ultimate causes of Tijuana’s femicide casts new light on immigration, human trafficking, addiction, and the true cost of American empire-building. It leads Werb all the way from factory slums to drug dens to the corridors of police corruption, as he follows a thread that ultimately leads to a surprising turn back over the border, looking northward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCity of Omens\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea compelling and disturbing tour of a border world that outsiders rarely see\u003c\/b\u003e — and simultaneously, a clear guide to a field of public health that offers an essential framework for understanding how both ideas and diseases can spread.” -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAIA SZALAVITZ\u003c\/b\u003e, author of Unbroken Brain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dan Werb combines his expertise as a trained epidemiologist with his keen discernment as an investigative journalist to depict what happens when poverty, human desperation, and unfathomable greed at the highest levels of a society mix with imperial ambition and a criminally ill-conceived policy towards drug use. \u003cb\u003eIt is a riveting and heartbreaking story, told with eloquence and compassion.\u003c\/b\u003e” -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGABOR MATÉ, MD\u003c\/b\u003e, bestselling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCity of Omens\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ean urgent and needed account of a desperate problem\u003c\/b\u003e. The perils that Mexico's women face haunt the conscience of a nation.” -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eALFREDO CORCHADO\u003c\/b\u003e, author of Homelands and Midnight in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hundreds of women die each year in the city of Tijuana and along the highway of the Baja coast, many of them from domestic violence, drug overdoses and H.I.V.-related diseases associated with the sex trade. Other bodies, often teenagers, turn up ‘bound and mutilated.’ Still others simply disappear . . . \u003cb\u003eWerb is determined to give them back some humanity\u003c\/b\u003e\" - \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] riveting scientific detective story.\" - \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Werb shines a light on an outbreak of brutal crimes against Tijuana’s most vulnerable population. This is \u003cb\u003ea well-researched, pressing study relevant to a wide audience\u003c\/b\u003e\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The author's \u003cb\u003esteely focus and smooth, vivid prose \u003c\/b\u003emake his encounters, which are often heartbreaking, come fully to life. . . . his text shines a necessary light on Tijuana's epidemic of ‘femicide’ and its unrivaled drug and poverty problems . . . Werb cuts through the desolation to get at the truth of the region's vexing problem.\" - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Werb’s personal odyssey and unique approach offer valuable insights into the tragedy of femicide on the border, where communities on both sides are inescapably interdependent. \u003cb\u003eA powerful addition to investigative coverage of the volatile borderland.\u003c\/b\u003e\" - \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dan Werb combines his expertise as a trained epidemiologist with his keen discernment as an investigative journalist to depict what happens when poverty, human desperation, and unfathomable greed at the highest levels of a society mix with imperial ambition and a criminally ill-conceived policy towards drug use. \u003cb\u003eIt is a riveting and heartbreaking story, told with eloquence and compassion.\u003c\/b\u003e\" - \u003ci\u003eGabor Maté, MD, bestselling author of IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCity of Omens \u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cb\u003ean urgent and needed account of a desperate problem\u003c\/b\u003e. The perils that Mexico’s women face haunt the conscience of a nation.\" - \u003ci\u003eAlfredo Corchado, author of HOMELANDS and MIDNIGHT IN MEXICO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Werb’s] writing is vivid . . . He has crafted a finely wrought exploration of public health sleuthing and social justice activism. His analysis is animated by many voices, but the most stunningly powerful are those of the IV drug user sex workers who are participants in this study.” - \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781635572995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40678767329486,"sku":"9781635572995","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_a7ff1d1c-c442-4119-98a7-190cb865a062.jpg?v=1640062813","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781635572995","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}