La Perdida is an alternative comic book series created by Jessica Abel and published by Fantagraphics.
It was collected into graphic novel form by Pantheon Books,[1] and has received a positive critical response.
Abel revised the text for its compilation and publication in 2006 as a 288-page hardcover volume by Pantheon.
During her stay in Mexico City as an American expatriate attempting to gain a greater knowledge of her Mexican heritage, Carla encounters a variety of people, eventually rejecting her role within the expatriate social hierarchy and attempting to achieve a more authentic experience of life as an "ordinary" citizen of Mexico.
Along the way, she confronts the complexities of an age-old civilization, upheavals of conflicting politics, and the criminal undercurrents of Mexico City.