Menu
Top of the pile
78
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
89/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Cristina Rivera Garza
Publisher:
Hogarth
Date:
February 28, 2023
On July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. 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. Liliana's Invincible Summer tells the story of a spirited, romantic young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence.
What The Reviewers Say
Punctilious, fury-driven, incandescent.
Powerful.
This collaged portrait is one of the most effective resurrections of a murder victim I have ever read.
The femicide of Liliana Rivera Garza went almost unnoticed by the press when it happened—July 1990—but, thanks to this book, has become emblematic of the failure of Mexican justice to prosecute crimes in which the victim is a woman.
