lycée in southern France and earned a degree in French and creative writing from Loyola University. Sanford holds an MA from the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School in NYC and conducted research for her master’s thesis in Buenos Aires with the Identity Archive of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. This work inspired The Disappeared.
At Electric Lit she tagged "seven books that center the lives, experiences, and long wakes of grief left behind by those taken during Argentina’s so-called 'dirty war'." One title on the list:
Read about the other entries on the list.Hades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel
As a medical student in 1976, Tomás Oriilla would do anything for his childhood crush, Isabel—even if her ideological fervor puts them both at risk. Ten years later, Tomás is in exile, living in New York as Thomas Shore. He is called back to Buenos Aires, where ghosts of the disappeared force him to confront the choices he once made in the name of love. A haunting journey into the past, Hades explores love and complicity through the distorted and surreal lens of individual and collective memory.
--Marshal Zeringue
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