Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez by Bowden, Charles - 2010

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2010 First Edition of this graphic novel of the US-Mexico border. Black cover boards with gilt title to spine, clean with little noticeable wear. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is square and solid. Dust jacket is clean with no tears or stains, price intact on flap, in mylar sleeve. "What do you call a place where people are tortured and murdered and buried in the backyard of a nice, middle-class condo? Where the meanings of words such as "border" and "crime" and "justice" are emptying out into the streets and flowing down into the sewers? You call it Juarez, or, better yet, Dreamland. Realizing that merely reporting the facts cannot capture the massive disintegration of society that is happening along the border, Charles Bowden and Alice Leora Briggs use nonfiction and sgraffito drawings to depict the surreality that is Cuidad Juarez, Mexico. With the feel of a graphic novel, the look of an illuminated medieval manuscript, and the harshness of a police blotter, this book captures the routine brutality, resilient courage, and rapacious daily commerce along the U.S. - Mexico border," says the publisher's description.