Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize winner): A Sister's Search for Justice Audiobook

Quotes

• “Garza recreates Liliana’s death at the hands of a violent ex-boyfriend, opening a Pandora’s box of bureaucratic demons and igniting a cold case that rallied a nation to the cause of domestic abuse.”

  — Oprah Daily

• “The record of a woman who, against the odds, refuses to be forgotten…Her book, part of a larger call for justice by women in Mexico, helped locate the suspect.”

  — New York Times

• “Her main goal, however, is not abstract analysis of femicide but to chronicle a life lost to it.”

  — The Economist

• “A moving, heart-wrenching memoir as well as an unflinching appraisal of the widespread violence against women in Mexico.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• Cristina Rivera Garza wanted to shed light on the life of her sister, killed 30 years ago. Her book, part of a larger call for justice by women in Mexico, helped locate the suspect. . . . [Liliana's Invincible Summer] is the record of a woman who, against the odds, refuses to be forgotten.

  — The New York Times

• Women across the world are killed at shocking rates by men, usually partners or former ones. . . . Anger at this lack of accountability seethes through Ms. Rivera Garza’s book. Her main goal, however, is not abstract analysis of femicide but to chronicle a life lost to it. . . . Absorbing and poetic.

  — The Economist

• A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact . . . Reminiscent of Natasha Trethewey’s “Memorial Drive,” Rivera Garza’s memoir is both master stroke and a critical inflection point in her country’s brutal, patriarchal politics.

  — The Boston Globe

• The Mexican virtuoso’s searing, propulsive memoir probes the murder of her younger sister . .  . Rivera Garza recreates Liliana’s death at the hands of a violent ex-boyfriend, opening a Pandora’s box of bureaucratic demons and igniting a cold case that rallied a nation to the cause of domestic abuse.

  — Oprah Daily

• Liliana’s Invincible Summer is a blueprint of one woman’s murder, but it is also the story of hundreds of thousands of women throughout the globe. I was shaken and alerted by Cristina Rivera Garza’s investigation into her own grief. It has inspired me to speak up as she has bravely done.

  — Sandra Cisneros

• Cristina Rivera Garza has written something almost miraculous: not a cold case file or true crime story, but an attempt to recover Liliana’s life, her spark, her youth, taken away with such cruelty. This book is a revelation.

  — Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night

• Reading this astounding, lyrical, and brilliant book will open your heart and break it, leaving you more vulnerable to both love and rage.

  — Julie Carr, author of Real Life

• The heart-filled writing of this genre-bending book is a political act, a manifesto against patriarchy and the ‘straightjacket of machismo.’

  — Javier Zamora, author of Solito

• This is sisterhood as mystery, yearning, and ghosted affection.

  — Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of My Broken Language

• This piercing remembrance hits home.

  — Publishers Weekly

• A moving, heart-wrenching memoir as well as an unflinching appraisal of the widespread violence against women in Mexico.

  — Kirkus Reviews