Disappearances books

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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.

The Little School
Alicia Partnoy
A memoir by a former political prisoner in Argentina who was held in a clandestine detention centre during the dictatorship, and who writes about the people who disappeared there.
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Highway of Tears
Jessica McDiarmid
A nonfiction account of the many missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls along Highway 16 in British Columbia, and of the families and communities pressing for answers.
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Zahra's Paradise
Amir Khalil
A graphic novel about a mother searching for her son, who disappeared after protests in Iran, and about the state's handling of the disappeared.
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Sabrina
Nick Drnaso
A graphic novel about a woman who disappears and the way her disappearance is handled by people around her and by media, with a quiet, flat tone.
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Missing 411
David Paulides
A popular book on unexplained disappearances in US and Canadian national parks. It is widely read in the unexplained-disappearance strand, though its claims are disputed by search-and-rescue professionals.
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