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""" Blood in the Fields is a fascinating yet troubling look at a generation grappling with identity. It is a powerful account, one crafted with sensitivity and sharp human insights, of another Mexico within the United States. Julia Reynolds is a masterful storyteller."" --Alfredo Corchado, author of Midnight in Mexico and Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News ""Both chilling and sad--so many lives lost, so many households ruined, and so many hearts torn apart. Blood in the Fields is a must-read for anybody interested in stopping the cycle of violence for safer communities."" --Gabe Morales, author, trainer, gang specialist, and founder of the International Latino Gang Investigators Association ""A sprawling, literary true-crime effort that will reward patient readers with its gloomy account of an unstoppable, violent subculture."" -- Kirkus ""Journalist Reynolds's debut offers a well sourced account of the most important criminal organization you've never heard of: Nuestra Familia."" -- Publishers Weekly ""Reynolds skillfully limns the tough lives, heartlessness, misgivings, and bad decisions made for the sake of family and the home country of Mexico...A riveting tale of a monster of criminality that is still not dead but merely changing shape."" -- Booklist"

Both chilling and sad--so many lives lost, so many households ruined, and so many hearts torn apart. Blood in the Fields is a must-read for anybody interested in stopping the cycle of violence for safer communities. --Gabe Morales, author, trainer, gang specialist, and founder of the International Latino Gang Investigators Association

A sprawling, literary true-crime effort that will reward patient readers with its gloomy account of an unstoppable, violent subculture. -- Kirkus

"" Blood in the Fields is a fascinating yet troubling look at a generation grappling with identity. It is a powerful account, one crafted with sensitivity and sharp human insights, of another Mexico within the United States. Julia Reynolds is a masterful storyteller."" --Alfredo Corchado, author of Midnight in Mexico and Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News ""Both chilling and sad--so many lives lost, so many households ruined, and so many hearts torn apart. Blood in the Fields is a must-read for anybody interested in stopping the cycle of violence for safer communities."" --Gabe Morales, author, trainer, gang specialist, and founder of the International Latino Gang Investigators Association ""A sprawling, literary true-crime effort that will reward patient readers with its gloomy account of an unstoppable, violent subculture."" -- Kirkus ""Journalist Reynolds's debut offers a well sourced account of the most important criminal organization you've never heard of: Nuestra Familia."" -- Publishers Weekly ""Reynolds skillfully limns the tough lives, heartlessness, misgivings, and bad decisions made for the sake of family and the home country of Mexico...A riveting tale of a monster of criminality that is still not dead but merely changing shape."" -- Booklist

Journalist Reynolds's debut offers a well sourced account of the most important criminal organization you've never heard of: Nuestra Familia. -- Publishers Weekly

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Julia Reynolds coproduced and wrote the PBS documentary Nuestra Familia, Our Family and reported on the northern California gang for more than a decade. She currently works as a staff writer at the Monterey County Herald and has reported for National Public Radio, the Discovery Channel, the Nation, Mother Jones, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more.

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