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Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide

2 September, 2025

Illustrated cover for Silenced Voices. Two teenage Guatemalan girls stand next to each other, looking on in fear or maybe horror toward a soldier in front of them, who is just barely visible carrying a gun in the foreground. The older girl has her arm around the younger's shoulder. Their clothing, faces, and hair look a little scuffed up, and there's another soldier carrying a gun in the far distance.

Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide by Pablo Leon
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In this moving intergenerational tale perfect for fans of Messy Roots and Illegal, Eisner-nominated creator Pablo Leon combines historical research of the Guatemalan Civil War with his own experiences as a Guatemalan immigrant to depict a powerful story of family, sacrifice, survival, and hope.

Langley Park, Maryland, 2013

Brothers Jose and Charlie know very little about their mother’s life in Guatemala, until Jose grows curious about the ongoing genocide trial of Efrain Rios Montt. At first his mother, Clara, shuts his questions down. But as the trial progresses, she begins to open up to her sons about a time in her life that she’s left buried for years.

Peten, Guatemala, 1982

Sisters Clara and Elena hear about the armed conflict every day, but the violence somehow seems far away from their small village. But the day the fight comes to their doorstep, the sisters are separated and are forced to flee through the mountains, leaving them to wonder…Have their paths diverged forever?

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