Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel is a personal exploration of the life and times of Alicia Raboy, the journalist and political militant who was disappeared by the Argentine armed forces in June 1976. Marc Raboy, whose Ukrainian grandfather spent a year in Buenos Aires before emigrating to Canada, had always been intrigued by his family's connection to Argentina. But he did not know about Alicia until preparing for his first trip to Buenos Aires in 2018. Moved by Alicia's story, Raboy soon discovered that he had more in common with his distant cousin than their shared last name. They were born a month apart in 1948, and their families were shaped by the persecution of eastern European Jews that that led to waves of migration to the Americas. In their teenage years, both felt the pull of New Left movements, though Alicia's revolutionary commitments took...

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