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Liliana's Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera Garza

Liliana's Invincible Summer By Cristina Rivera Garza

Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza


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Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza

From 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. 'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY 'Full of tenderness and beauty. This book is a revelation and a restoration of her sister's memory' MARIANA ENRIQUEZ, author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed 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.

Liliana's Invincible Summer Reviews

Meticulously written and deeply moving - Liliana's Invincible Summer bravely examines society's methodical misogyny and the devastating long-term effects a murder has on a family. How grief keeps a different clock. How a family are placed in limbo land. But most moving of all is the way a bereaved sister manages to give Liliana back her voice so that Liliana is brimful of life. A triumph -- Jackie Kay
Rivera Garza's book is a blueprint of one woman's murder, but it is the trail of hundreds of thousands of women throughout the globe. I was shaken and alerted by her investigation into her own grief. It has educated me to speak up as she has bravely done -- Sandra Cisneros
Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer. A dexterous creator of atmospheres, with a powerful style, an evocative and indomitable language -- Lina Merwane, praise for Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is a masterful storyteller. Through extensive research she reconstructs her sister's murder and the investigation that followed. Though deeply personal, this work is also a strong protest against the high number of femicides in Mexico and the absence of justice -- Jennifer Clement, author of GUN LOVE
[Cristina Rivera Garza] has written something almost miraculous: not a cold case file or a true crime, but an attempt to recover Liliana's life, her spark, her youth, taken away with such cruelty that somehow society has failed to condemn with enough fury. The writing, both Cristina's and Liliana's, via her diaries, is full of tenderness and beauty. This book is a revelation and a restoration of her sister's memory from victim to vibrant young woman -- Mariana Enriquez, author of THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED
The heart-filled writing of this genre-bending book is a political act, a manifesto against patriarchy and the 'straightjacket of machismo.' In a just world Liliana's Invincible Summer would become required reading, and maybe then, just maybe, women can begin to live in a safer world -- Javier Zamora, author of SOLITO and UNACCOMPANIED
Sisterhood as mystery, yearning, and ghosted affection. Cristina was as close to her sister in life, as she was distant from her after Liliana's tragic and untimely death. It is this unreconcilable divide, and Cristina's efforts to bridge it, that makes Liliana's Invincible Summer a haunting testimony -- Quiara Alegria Hudes, author of MY BROKEN LANGUAGE
Reading this astounding, lyrical, and brilliant book will open your heart and break it, leaving you more vulnerable to both love and rage. Cristina Rivera Garza rips the veil of acceptance off the brutality that structures and dictates our lives, the patriarchal murderousness that wants us to believe it is inevitable. No. This book says 'no' to that lie by courageously, painstakingly, beautifully rendering Liliana - a beloved sister taken by that violence. Read this book to find yourself in powerful company with all who demand justice and with it a new world -- Julie Carr, author of REAL LIFE
In a world that denies women justice, how do we attend to those killed by femicide? Held by Garza's exquisite prose, we remember, we grieve, we rage. Reimagining what archives can do, Rivera Garza excavates police reports, diary accounts, interviews, and memory, compiling a memoir where nothing escapes grief's investigation - not love, injustice, the self, sisterhood, state violence, patriarchy, the pleasure of women. Our remaining task? To find new means to attend to and protect one another. To miss Liliana, too -- Hafizah Augustus Geter, author of THE BLACK PERIOD and UN-AMERICAN

About Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican author and academic. Her book Grieving was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She received her PhD in History in 1995 and an honoris causa PhD in Humane Letters in 2012, both from the University of Houston, where she founded the first PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish. Her awards include the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (2013) and the Anna Seghers-Preis (2005). She is the only two-time winner of the International Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize (2001; 2009), and has received a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' fellowship. She lives in the United States.

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Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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