"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. A memoir decades in the making, Liliana's Invincible Summer tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously romantic young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsome--but insecure and possessive--older man, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before"-- Provided by publisher Este libro es para celebrar el paso de Liliana Rivera Garza por la tierra y para decirle que, claro que �s, lo vamos a tirar. Al patriarcado lo vamos a tirar. El 16 de julio de 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, mi hermana, fue �vctima de un feminicidio. Era una muchacha de 20 �aos, estudiante de arquitectura. Te�na �aos tratando de terminar su relac�in con un novio de la preparatoria que insis�ta en no dejarla ir. Unas cuantas semanas antes de la tragedia, Liliana por fin to�m una decis�in definitiva: en lo �ms crudo del invierno ha�ba descubierto que en ella, como bien lo ha�ba dicho Albert Camus, ha�ba un invencible verano. Lo deja�ra at�rs. Empeza�ra una nueva vida. Ha�ra una maest�ra y desp�us un doctorado; viaja�ra a Londres. La decis�in de� l fue que ella no tend�ra una vida sin� l. Hace apenas un �ao deci�d abrir las cajas donde depositamos las pertenencias de mi hermana. Su voz atrave�s el tiempo y, como la de tantas mujeres desaparecidas y ultrajadas en �Mxico, deman�d justicia.
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