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

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

This was a tragic story beautifully told by Liliana's sister. My only complaint is that I wish I would have read it instead of listening to the audiobook. The story jumps timelines from present day to the past, and is also told from different perspectives. The narrator of the audiobook doesn't change her tone or inflection at all when changing perspectives, so it's very difficult to distinguish who's telling the story at a specific time. I listened on Libby and the "chapters" are very large and lumped together. For example, multiple chapters are 60+ minutes, and one is 90 minutes in audio format, but within each chapter there are multiple segments/perspectives. So you can't even go back to the start of the chapter if you miss the name of the speaker, because it may take you back over an hour (as a side note, this does seem to be slightly better in the Spotify version, but not by much). Overall, this was a beautiful tribute to Liliana, but I think I missed a lot of details because I didn't know who was speaking at any given time. 
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