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Liliana's invincible summer : a sister's search for justice / Christina Rivera Garza.

by Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

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Rivera Garza, Liliana, 1969-1990.

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- -- Family.

Intimate partner violence.

Murder victims' families -- Mexico.

Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography.

9780593244098 (hc)

Invencible verano de Liliana. English

305 p. : ill. ; 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."--Publisher.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, 2024.

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