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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

byCristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza searches for truth and justice in the 1990 murder of her younger sister Liliana, a promising architecture student in Mexico City. Letters, notebooks, photographs, friends' memories, and an abandoned legal file restore Liliana's voice and document the controlling relationship that preceded her death. The memoir connects intimate grief with a society that lacked the language and institutions to recognize femicide. Rivera Garza refuses to let her sister remain only a victim, creating a loving portrait of youth, friendship, ambition, and the long work of naming violence that was once treated as private tragedy.

Publisher

Crown/Archetype

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780593244098