Liliana's Invincible Summer, Cristina Rivera Garza

"On July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, my sister, was a victim of femicide. She was a 20-year-old architecture student. For years, she had been trying to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana finally made a definitive decision: in the depths of winter, she had discovered that within her, as Albert Camus had rightly said, there was an invincible summer. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would pursue a master's degree and then a doctorate; she would travel to London.

His decision was that she would not have a life without him. Just a year ago, I decided to open the boxes where we had stored my sister's belongings. Her voice transcended time and, like that of so many missing and violated women in Mexico, demanded justice.

Liliana's Invincible Summer is an excavation into the life of a brilliant and audacious woman who, like ourselves, like everyone else, lacked the necessary language to identify, denounce, and combat the sexist violence and partner terrorism that characterizes so many patriarchal relationships." – Cristina Rivera Garza

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS IN THE NONFICTION CATEGORY

Included in The New York Times' 2023 Notable Fiction Books