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Liliana's invincible summer : a sister's search for justice / Christina Rivera Garza.
"In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice. A memoir decades in the making, Liliana's Invincible Summer tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously romantic young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsome--but insecure and possessive--older man, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593244098 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 305 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Hogarth, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: El invencible verano de Liliana. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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| Subject: | Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- > Family. Rivera Garza, Liliana, 1969-1990. Intimate partner violence > Mexico. Murder victims' families > Mexico. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 362.8820972 Riv | 31681010311934 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice. A memoir decades in the making, Liliana'sInvincible Summer tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously romantic young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsome--but insecure and possessive--older man, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before"-- - Baker & Taylor
The award-winning Mexican author recounts the story of her younger sisterâs murder by an abusive ex-boyfriend and her struggles to come to terms with the pain of a life cut short. Illustrations. - Random House, Inc.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ⢠NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ⢠A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ⢠âA searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sisterâs murderer to justice years after the factâ (The Boston Globe), from âone of Mexicoâs greatest living writersâ (Jonathan Lethem).
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âPart memoir, part true-crime story, Garzaâs chronicle is both personal and political.ââThe Washington Post
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, She Reads, Electric Lit
October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. âMy name is Cristina Rivera Garza,â she writes in her request to the attorney general, âand I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.â Itâs 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. Lilianaâs Invincible Summer is the accountâand the outcomeâof 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 sisterâs history, depicting everything from Lilianaâs 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 evidenceâhandwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, interviews with Lilianaâs loved onesâto document her sisterâs 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 isâand what she fights forâtoday.
