From Hogarth Press:

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD New York Times Book ReviewEditorsChoice A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sisters murderer to justice years after the fact (The Boston Globe), from one of Mexicos greatest living writers (Jonathan Lethem).

I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister. . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorneys office: I seek justice.

September 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. My name is Cristina Rivera Garza, she wrote in her request to the attorney general, and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990. Its been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriendand Cristina knows there is only a slim chance of recovering the file. And yet, inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, she embarks on a path toward justice.Lilianas Invincible Summeris the accountand the outcomeof that extraordinary quest.

In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. Following her decision to recover her sisters file, Rivera Garza traces the history of Lilianas life, from her early romance with a handsome but possessive and short-tempered man, to that exhilarating final summer of 1990 when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.

Using her remarkable talents as an acclaimed scholar, novelist, and poet, Rivera Garza collected and curated evidencehandwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, interviews with Lilianas loved onesto render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she isand what she fights fortoday.