"Intimate ethnography and testimonio influence the narrative style and translation, thus contextualizing personal narratives with historical, political, and sociocultural context... Most importantly, the narrative centers Orihuela Rocha, representative of an Indigenous female voice that is often silenced or marginalized in official government reports and history. This must-read book is accessible to both academics and non-specialists."

– I. Portaro, Choice

"Graciela draws the reader into the life story of one rural Andean woman. Her experiences are marked by poverty, discrimination, marginalization, violence, and displacement as well as survival, love, and care. Graciela's is an inspiring and important story to tell, as the perspectives and lives of women such as hers are largely invisible and ignored. By telling this story, a little bit of symbolic justice is done, by witnessing, listening, and valuing the life she and her loved ones have lived and are living."

– Jelke Boesten, author of Sexual Violence during War and Peace: Gender, Power, and Post-Conflict Justice in Peru