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• Champion of Canada Scans 2012• Selected for the Charles Taylor reward and the Bc Award for Canadian Non-FictionOn September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a violent coup that removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, from workplace. Hundreds were imprisoned, tortured and murdered underneath the repressive new regimen. Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her younger brother left the nation using their parents to get a lifestyle in decades later, when her mom and stepfather delivered to South Usa as Chilean opposition people, Carmen and her sister’s increase lives started. At 18, the resistance was joined by Carmen herself, falling further right into a world of fear, horror, and excitement.