Liliana's Invincible Summer

"October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. 'My name is Cristina Rivera Garza', she writes in her request to the attorney general, 'and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990'. It's been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, Cristina embarks on a path toward justice. Liliana's Invincible Summer is the account--and the outcome--of that quest..."--Provided by publisher.