Liliana's invincible summer : a sister's search for justice / Christina Rivera Garza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- author.

Standardized Title:

Invencible verano de Liliana. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexico.

Rivera Garza, Liliana, 1969-1990.

Rivera Garza, Liliana.

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964---Family.

Rivera Garza, Cristina.

Intimate partner violence--Mexico.

Intimate partner violence.

Murder victims' families--Mexico.

Murder victims' families.

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-.

Families.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographies

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Hogarth, [2023]

Summary:

"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

Contents:

Azcapotzalco

This sky, annoyingly blue

We go like she-devils, we go like bitches

Winter

There goes a free woman

Terrible ghosts from a strange place

And isn't this happiness

How I wish we were no longer fairies in a land of ice

An obscure crime

Our daughter

Chlorine.

Notes:

"This work, while originally written in English, is based on and shares themes with "El invencible verano de Liliana" by Cristina Rivera Garza, published in Spanish by Literatura Random House, Barcelona, in 2021"--Title page verso

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Rivera Garza, Christina, 1964- Liliana's invincible summer

Online version: Rivera Garza, Christina, 1964- Liliana's invincible summer.

ISBN:

9780593244098

0593244095

OCLC:

1315740212

Publisher Number:

99993105569