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Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

3 reviews

hmetwade's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, and Abortion

claraarianne's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Liliana's Invincible Summer is as captivating as it is heartbreaking. When the Mexican justice system fails to produce the file pertaining to Liliana's murder - let alone bring her killer to justice - Rivera Garza uncovers her long-dead sister's voice through letters, notes, journals, and testimonies of friends and family. The two sisters' voices become braided together in the process, speaking in a complicated tangle of love and grief. I constantly thought of my own sister, who is barely older than Liliana was, while I read this, and several times, I had to stop to cry. It's a haunting account of how intimate partner violence escalates, and how the signs are often missed by a society misogynistic and desperate to blame the victim. It surpasses Rivera Garza's goal, which was to recreate the missing file, by far - the detail and care put into this book is beyond what a coldly professional report could muster, of that I'm certain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Abortion

Minor: Cursing, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Excrement, and Toxic friendship

-Death of sibling -Implications of necrophilia