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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. More about this book >
Cristina Rivera Garza is an author, translator, and critic. Her recent publications include Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, 2024 Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir and Finalist for the National Book Award; El invencible verano de Liliana, which received the Xavier Villaurrutia National Award; Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, translated by Sarah Booker, which was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; and The Taiga Syndrome, translated by Aviva Kana and Suzanne Jill Levine, which received a Shirley Jackson Award. A recipient of the MacArthur fellowship, she is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and founder of the PhD Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston, Department of Hispanic Studies.
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