Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Christina Rivera Garza (memoir)

Let’s gather on a sunny Saturday morning, taste some rich coffee and yummy pastries and talk about this moving, heart-wrenching memoir as well as an unflinching appraisal of the widespread violence against women in Mexico.

In the book, Rivera Garza paints a portrait of her sister, Liliana, who was murdered in 1990 Mexico by her boyfriend. The suspected murderer fled and was never brought to justice. Rivera Garza attempts to obtain the police files regarding the murder, interviews Liliana's friends, family members, and reads her letters and personal writings in order to depict her sister's life and her loss.