Book Presentation: Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border

Please join leva Jusionyte, Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University, in conversation about her latest book with Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Co-Chair of the DRCLAS Mexican Studies Program.

An expert work of narrative nonfiction, EXIT WOUNDS provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, EXIT WOUNDS expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.

Presented in collaboration with the Harvard University Mexican Association of Students (HUMAS).