Cristina Rivera Garza, Mexican writer and professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston.

In 2021 the Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza publishes a title with which he pays homage to his murdered sister; Now, two years later, the book has been reprinted and translated into English, with this the story of Liliana Rivera Garza and the denunciation of her femicide reaches more readers.

In “Liliana’s Invincible Summer”the writer reconstructs the life of the young woman from his own memories, to present one of his most intimate works. Christina tell this tragedy July 16, 1990 when life ended lilianaa young woman in her early twenties whose dreams and goals have been taken away from her.

His sister was an architecture student, who had been trying to end their high school dating for years, but he insisted on not letting her go.

A few weeks before that fateful day, lilianaAfter being fed up with the suffocating situation he had dragged on for years, he made the final decision to put an end to this tortuous circle of love; she would leave behind her boyfriend, their relationship and any connection to him; his projects, rebuild his life, start a master’s, a doctorate and travel to London.

Liliana's invincible summer, is reissued in 2023 under the Vintage Español editorial label.
Liliana’s invincible summer, is reissued in 2023 under the Vintage Español editorial label.

In “Liliana’s Invincible Summer” (Vintage Spanish, 2023) the author tells how, from the point of view of man, liliana I wouldn’t have a life far or without him. In this memory exercise, rivera garza documents his sister’s femicide, a crime that at the time was simply recorded as a crime of passion. The non-fiction of Christina reveals this gender violence which hardens from the first steps of a relationship.

“Naming violence against women from the narrative continues to be fundamental to me, it’s a small but fundamental activism, keeping our ears open, paying attention to the pulse of these ever-growing demands that become more and more concrete,” said Cristina Rivera Garza in interview with The universal.

The book is not only a story of family or memory; at the same time rivera garza he also makes a complaint and everything at the same time; a story of the heart, memory and remembrance to honor the existence of his only sister; but also to document the tragedy of women’s stories, for which she plunged into boxes with her belongings, letters and texts.

The crime with which Ángel González Ramos is charged went unpunished for 33 years after his disappearance.
The crime with which Ángel González Ramos is charged went unpunished for 33 years after his disappearance.

The 59-year-old writer Liliana’s Invincible Summer an ode to her sister, and presents in her writing a brilliant woman, remarkable in her studies, but who could not get rid of the shadow and harassment of Angel González Ramos, her boyfriend, who brutally ended his life. This book also confirms as Cristina Rivera Garza She is a writer who transforms private duels into echoes of memory, silences and the search for justice.

“When there was a chance that I was nerdy, that I was exaggerating, she would show up and be like, ‘No, no, get out of here!’ writing Cristina Rivera Garza.

The also essayist, historian and scholar, in early January 2023, joined the ranks of the National College; her membership in the institution makes her the eighth woman among the 35 members that make up the body. The Mexican institution was founded in 1943 and since then has been dedicated to humanist, scientific and artistic dissemination, but also to issues such as equity and the gender perspective.

The author of “Liliana’s Invincible Summer” was chosen to enter National College because of the relationship that exists in his published work with gender violence, narratives focused on migration and his literary relationship with climate change, subjects in which he exposes a Mexican reality and his own personal deconstruction.

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