{"product_id":"2940196637865","title":"The Thursday Women: How the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Faced Down a Dictatorship and Brought Its Generals to Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn an ordinary Thursday afternoon in 1977, fourteen women stepped into the most dangerous square in Buenos Aires and did something no one in Argentina had dared to do. They asked a question out loud.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere are our children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir sons and daughters had vanished in the night, taken by a military government that denied everything and admitted nothing. So the mothers did the only thing left to them. They walked. In a circle, around a stone pyramid, in front of the very palace that held the answers, because standing still was against the law and nobody had made walking illegal yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE THURSDAY WOMEN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the true story of what happened next, and it reads less like history than like a thriller you cannot put down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will meet Azucena, the mother who started it all, and watch her walk straight into a trap set by a man who spent a year pretending to grieve beside her. You will sit in a courtroom nine years later as a country puts its own generals on trial for the first time in Latin American history, and you will hear the verdict land like a hammer. You will follow a grandmother's thirty six year search for a boy who did not know his own name, and you will be there, decades late but not too late, when she finally holds him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a textbook. There are no footnotes interrupting the story, no dry recitation of dates. Every scene is built from real testimony, real court transcripts, and real survivors who lived to tell it. The women in these pages are not symbols. They are mothers who happened to discover, one unbearable week at a time, that grief organized with enough discipline could do something a government never expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt could make it answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy readers cannot stop reading this book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA true story more gripping than fiction.\u003c\/em\u003e Every twist, every betrayal, every reunion actually happened, verified against the historical record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA movement that changed the world.\u003c\/em\u003e The white headscarf these women wore became one of the most recognized symbols of resistance on the planet, and its legacy is still spreading today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA courtroom drama with real stakes.\u003c\/em\u003e The trial at the heart of this book remains one of the most extraordinary legal proceedings of the twentieth century, and you will feel every minute of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn ending that will stay with you.\u003c\/em\u003e Not every question gets answered. But some do, decades later, in ways that will catch you completely off guard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you loved the tension of \u003cem\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, the moral weight of \u003cem\u003eThe Trial of the Chicago 7\u003c\/em\u003e, or the quiet devastation of \u003cem\u003eSay Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, you have found your next book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen women once believed that showing up, again and again, was the only power they had left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey were right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead their story. You will not close this book until the last page, and you will not forget it after.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Expedition Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48534041428209,"sku":"2940196637865","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940196637865_p0.jpg?v=1786329135","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940196637865","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}