A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

"Journalist Haley Cohen Gilliland offers an extraordinary investigation into how Argentine grandmothers banded together to find their disappeared children and grandchildren. Rendered in meticulous detail via deep archival research and reporting, A Flower Traveled in My Blood traces how, during the Dirty War in Argentina, a military junta systematically disappeared about 30,000 supposed “subversives,” including more than 300 pregnant women whose newborns were then fraudulently adopted. Through the story of one woman’s decades-long participation in the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo movement, searching for the truth about what happened to her daughter and grandchild, Gilliland weaves in a profound meditation on questions of generational bonds, identity and what makes a family."