Liliana's Invincible Summer
A Sister's Search for Justice
New York : Hogarth, [2023]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"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.
Subjects:
Rivera Garza, Liliana, 1969-1990.
Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- -- Family.
Intimate partner violence -- Mexico.
Murder victims' families -- Mexico.
Rivera Garza, Liliana, 1969-1990.
Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- -- Family.
Intimate partner violence -- Mexico.
Murder victims' families -- Mexico.
ISBN:
9780593244098
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRUE CRIME Riv | Ballentine Indoors | New, Nonfiction | In |
TRUE CRIME Riv | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 4/10/2024) |