Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice (Rivera Garza Cristina)(Paperback) - diskuze

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER &bull, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST &bull, A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ,&bull, &ldquo,A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister&rsquo,s murderer to justice years after the fact&rdquo, (The Boston Globe), from &ldquo,one of Mexico&rsquo,s greatest living writers&rdquo, (Jonathan Lethem).  , &ldquo,Part memoir, part true-crime story, Garza&rsquo,s chronicle is both personal and political.&rdquo,&mdash,The 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. &ldquo,My name is Cristina Rivera Garza,&rdquo, she writes in her request to the attorney general, &ldquo,and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990.&rdquo, It&rsquo,s 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. Liliana&rsquo,s Invincible Summer is the account&mdash,and the outcome&mdash,of that quest . In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: Liliana is a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who
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