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laurafdez's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Acabé el libro sin querer devolverlo a la estantería. Tenía la necesidad de que se quedara cerca para cerciorarme de recordar la imagen de Liliana, feliz y soleada, que aparece en la portada. La Liliana llena de vida que su hermana, Cristina Rivera Garza, nos muestra a lo largo de todo el libro. Porque gracias a cómo la autora nos la presenta nos permite llegar a conocerla como alguien cercano y presente, y su pérdida duele como si hubiera pasado hoy.
El lenguaje nos lastra y nos salva, desposeernos de él nos desprotege, mientras que poner palabras a las violencias que vivimos nos da una lupa para ver las cosas con claridad y alcanzar las herramientas necesarias, tanto para quienes viven dentro de la violencia como para quienes están alrededor.
Es un libro duro, pero bellísimo, escrito con una sensibilidad que te atraviesa el corazón para siempre. Es el homenaje más bello y digno que alguien le puede hacer a otra persona. Y es un homenaje que trasciende lo individual para homenajear a su vez a todas las mujeres que día tras otro son asesinadas a manos de hombres. Hombres normales, comunes, anodinos, simpáticos, rudos, altos, bajos, que asesinan a mujeres que tenían una vida, un lenguaje, una personalidad, complejidades, aficiones, una red de personas alrededor, futuros, emociones, sueños, proyectos, vida. Lo único que no tuvieron fue culpa.
Gracias, Cristina Rivera Garza por este libro.
El lenguaje nos lastra y nos salva, desposeernos de él nos desprotege, mientras que poner palabras a las violencias que vivimos nos da una lupa para ver las cosas con claridad y alcanzar las herramientas necesarias, tanto para quienes viven dentro de la violencia como para quienes están alrededor.
Es un libro duro, pero bellísimo, escrito con una sensibilidad que te atraviesa el corazón para siempre. Es el homenaje más bello y digno que alguien le puede hacer a otra persona. Y es un homenaje que trasciende lo individual para homenajear a su vez a todas las mujeres que día tras otro son asesinadas a manos de hombres. Hombres normales, comunes, anodinos, simpáticos, rudos, altos, bajos, que asesinan a mujeres que tenían una vida, un lenguaje, una personalidad, complejidades, aficiones, una red de personas alrededor, futuros, emociones, sueños, proyectos, vida. Lo único que no tuvieron fue culpa.
Gracias, Cristina Rivera Garza por este libro.
youreawizardjerry's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
4.75
It’s rare to find a writer that can capture and break down complex emotion as imaginatively as CRG can. Cristina Rivera Garza's grief is palpable through her unique language on every page. Her writing is transcendent, leaving us with descriptions of life that all can feel but few could voice. Suffice to say… I am a big fan.
I loved that this book became a collection of communal grief, was never one of entertainment (although I was engrossed from start to finish). This is not "true crime" as a genre, this is reality. It came across as reading about someone closer than similar stories tend to feel, if that makes sense. The book brought me to take pauses several times wherein I had these repeating realizations that Liliana is gone and that is a constant for the Garzas and all who knew her. That this will continue to be their lives after we all close the book. Then I’d sob into the pages. As Cristina writes, the only difference between us and victims of femicide, is people we have & have not come across.
I do wish there was a final connection between the introduction and ends of the story though, because we do not see the narrator's journey that is set up in the beginning culminate to anything within the book. I understand that the idea of what justice means shifted as Cristina sat with her sister's memory, but I wish she had expressed that conclusion in the text to bring it all together. Overall, this is a beautiful contemplation on remembering someone whose been taken from you, and an incredible feat of the heart. It was an honor to witness this intimacy and I’m certain it will stay with me forever.
I loved that this book became a collection of communal grief, was never one of entertainment (although I was engrossed from start to finish). This is not "true crime" as a genre, this is reality. It came across as reading about someone closer than similar stories tend to feel, if that makes sense. The book brought me to take pauses several times wherein I had these repeating realizations that Liliana is gone and that is a constant for the Garzas and all who knew her. That this will continue to be their lives after we all close the book. Then I’d sob into the pages. As Cristina writes, the only difference between us and victims of femicide, is people we have & have not come across.
I do wish there was a final connection between the introduction and ends of the story though, because we do not see the narrator's journey that is set up in the beginning culminate to anything within the book. I understand that the idea of what justice means shifted as Cristina sat with her sister's memory, but I wish she had expressed that conclusion in the text to bring it all together. Overall, this is a beautiful contemplation on remembering someone whose been taken from you, and an incredible feat of the heart. It was an honor to witness this intimacy and I’m certain it will stay with me forever.
turtlesreads's review
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
4.25
I loved the poetic prose that Rivera Garza uses and feel like it really made the book standout. It gave me all the feels an I am so humbled that I was allowed to take this very personal journey with the author.
lunamonica08's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Abortion
bashsbooks's review
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.
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 necrophiliavalpacheco's review against another edition
5.0
“Freedom is not the problem. Men are the problem—violent, arrogant, murderous men.” Great but heartbreaking story that shines light on femicide in Mexico. The way it is written truly helps rhetorical author give voice to her sister and show who she is past a victim of a horrible crime. I thought this was tastefully done, educational on domestic violence, femicide, etc.