Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

In July 1990 Liliana, a twenty-year-old architecture student, was killed by the boyfriend from her school days whom she had spent years trying to leave; weeks earlier she had at last decided to break free, study for higher degrees and go to London. Nearly three decades later her older sister, a writer living in Texas, opens the boxes that hold Liliana's belongings and travels to Mexico City to ask the authorities for the old, unsolved case file. Out of letters in Liliana's hand, school notebooks, police reports and the memories of her friends, the book rebuilds a bold, bright young woman and her last, freest summer, and asks why neither she nor anyone around her had the words to name the violence that ended her life.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

302 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2021 by Literatura Random House

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9786073804059 (original)

9780593244098 (Hogarth, United States)

9780593244111 (Hogarth, United States)

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