When I Look into the Mirror and See You

In the early 1980s, in the midst of Central Americas decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Surez Toro of Costa Rica were kidnapped and subjected to rape and other tortures. Of the nearly two hundred disappeared persons in Honduras in those years, they are, remarkably, two of only five survivors. Fourteen years after their ordeal, Surez and Miselems chance meeting at a conference on human rights was witnessed by and is now retold in Margaret Randalls When I Look into the Mirror andSee You. Through direct testimony, vivid prose, and evocative photographs, Randall recounts the terror, resistance, and survival of Surez and Miselem. The book details the abuses suffered by them, the ruses they used to foil their captors, the support that they gave each other while imprisoned, the means they used to escape, and their attempts to reconstruct their lives. For the first time, Surez and Miselem explore the pain and trauma of their past and Randall has done the service of adding these remarkable voices to the global campaign to bring the worlds attention to womens human rights.