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āPart memoir, part true-crime story, Garzaās chronicle is both personal and political.āāThe Washington Post
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October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. āMy name is Cristina Rivera Garza,ā she writes in her request to the attorney general, āand I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.ā Itās been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, Cristina embarks on a path toward justice. Lilianaās Invincible Summer is the accountāand the outcomeāof that quest .
In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: Liliana is a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. Rivera Garza traces her sisterās history, depicting everything from Lilianaās early romance with a handsome but possessive and short-tempered man to that exhilarating final summer of 1990 when she loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.
Using her skills as an acclaimed scholar, novelist, and poet, Rivera Garza collected and curated evidenceāhandwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, interviews with Lilianaās loved onesāto document her sisterās life. Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, she confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines how this tragedy continues to shape who she isāand what she fights forātoday.
This book title, Liliana's Invincible Summer (A Sister's Search for Justice), ISBN: 9780593244111, by Cristina Rivera Garza, published by Random House Publishing Group (March 12, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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