Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

"In 1990, an abusive ex-boyfriend murdered Cristina Rivera Garza’s younger sister, Liliana, in Mexico City – a crime that has tormented the author ever since. She has confronted that grief, in part, by writing this book: part memoir, part true-crime investigation, part treatise against femicide. It’s rich with details of Liliana’s history, pieced together through interviews, police reports and the archive of diary entries and letters her sister left behind. But it’s Rivera Garza’s beautiful, poetic writing that has really stayed with me; her love for her sister is so apparent it makes my heart ache – and rage – that much more."