A Child to Call My Own (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. In June 2009, a woman walked out of one of Mexico City's largest public hospitals carrying a gift bag. Inside was a newborn infant, less than twenty-four hours old, taken from her mother's side while she slept.The woman's name was Eleonor Alejandra Marin Mendoza. She was twenty-six years old, a hospital worker, a wife. For nine months she had told everyone who loved her that she was pregnant. She had gained twenty-five kilograms. She had forged medical documents. She had accepted gifts at her baby shower and smiled in the home video footage that would later play on every television in Mexico. And then, when the arrangement she believed she had made with a young woman named Mayra fell apart at the last moment, she made a decision that would cost her fourteen years of her life.The press called her robabebas. Baby thief. The word became her identity overnight, a verdict delivered before the trial, a label that flattened a complicated human being into a single terrible act.A Child to Call My Own goes further. Drawing on court records, and contemporaneous reporting from the Mexican press, this book asks the questions that the headlines never bothered to ask. What does a woman have to have lived through for a decision like this to feel like the only remaining door? What happens when a culture measures a woman's worth entirely by her ability to become a mother? What does it mean that the man who loved her told her, across years of loss, that he could not love an adopted child?This is not a story about a monster. It is a story about a person, and about the world that made her, and about the child at the center of everything who was recovered safe and healthy and who is now seventeen years old and entirely her own. It is also a story about what true crime gets wrong, about what the law can and cannot see, and about what understanding costs when it refuses to look away.Every question the documentary raised and left open, every perspective it gave less time than it deserved, every system it named without examining: this book goes there. Read this book and decide for yourself whether knowing more makes it easier to judge her, or harder. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798181224650
- Título
- A Child to Call My Own (Paperback)
- Autor
- Randall Fuquay
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798181224650
The woman's name was Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza. She was twenty-six years old, a hospital worker, a wife. For nine months she had told everyone who loved her that she was pregnant. She had gained twenty-five kilograms. She had forged medical documents. She had accepted gifts at her baby shower and smiled in the home video footage that would later play on every television in Mexico. And then, when the arrangement she believed she had made with a young woman named Mayra fell apart at the last moment, she made a decision that would cost her fourteen years of her life.
The press called her robabebas. Baby thief. The word became her identity overnight, a verdict delivered before the trial, a label that flattened a complicated human being into a single terrible act.
A Child to Call My Own goes further. Drawing on court records, and contemporaneous reporting from the Mexican press, this book asks the questions that the headlines never bothered to ask. What does a woman have to have lived through for a decision like this to feel like the only remaining door? What happens when a culture measures a woman's worth entirely by her ability to become a mother? What does it mean that the man who loved her told her, across years of loss, that he could not love an adopted child?
This is not a story about a monster. It is a story about a person, and about the world that made her, and about the child at the center of everything who was recovered safe and healthy and who is now seventeen years old and entirely her own. It is also a story about what true crime gets wrong, about what the law can and cannot see, and about what understanding costs when it refuses to look away.
Every question the documentary raised and left open, every perspective it gave less time than it deserved, every system it named without examining: this book goes there. Read this book and decide for yourself whether knowing more makes it easier to judge her, or harder.
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