Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza is one of the more powerful books I have read recently. This is everything a piece of art should be: a moving invocation to life and loss, an examination of the injustice in this world, especially for women at the hands of predatory men, all written in powerful and gorgeous prose.
This book is deeply sad but also hopeful. Rivera Garza has written a work that is a memorial to her long dead sister that shines brighter than any plaque or statue. By the end we, the reader, know Liliana, murdered at twenty, as if she was still her young and vibrant self; her sister brings her to life so we can love her too.
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