Liliana's Invincible Summer

<b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR</b><b>A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST</b><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME</i> AND <i>NEW YORKER</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR</b>¿Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph¿ <b>JACKIE KAY</b>¿Absorbing and poetic¿ <b><i>ECONOMIST</i></b>¿Full of tenderness and beauty¿ <b>MARIANA ENRIQUEZ</b><b>From one of Mexico¿s greatest contemporary writers, an </b><b>astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates </b><b>an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the </b><b>death of one woman.</b><i>I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney¿s office: I seek justice.</i>On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza¿s sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico''s dark and relentless history of femicide.She was a twenty-year-old architect

A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph’ JACKIE KAY‘Absorbing and poetic’ ECONOMIST‘Full of tenderness and beauty’ MARIANA ENRIQUEZFrom one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney’s office: I seek justice.On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza’s sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico''s dark and relentless history of femicide.She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master''s degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence – handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints – to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister’s voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.