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.

The narrative is full of a wide variety of characters whose common tie is Liliana, and the author knits all of the stories together with aplomb. Her skilled storytelling movingly depicts the last days of her sister’s life within the context of the continued plague of femicide.

... gut-wrenching blend of memoir and reportage.