Braided Sorrow

Braided Sorrow is a work by University of Iowa alumni, Marisela Trevo Orta, about real murders of young Latina women in Juarez, Mexico, but is told in both realistic and poetic language. The play evokes the genre of magical realism, which is popular in Latin/South American cultures. The play follows young Alma and her labor in a maquiladora in Juarez and her fight to survive and help her family. La Llorona walks the land, mourning the loss of her daughters and employs Alma to help stop the senseless murders, which ultimately leads to Alma’s own murder.