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Review: Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice –
Cristina Rivera Garza (Bloomsbury)
Liliana Rivera Garza first met Angel Gonzalez Ramos while she was still at high
school in Toluca, Mexico, in 1984. Obsessive from the start, Angel spent months
winning her over, then suddenly took up with an old girlfriend, breaking her
heart.
When Liliana moved to Mexico City to study architecture, her free-spirited
nature flourished. She attracted friends and lovers alike. But Angel began
turning up at weekends, hovering silently on the edge of her social life,
unable to leave her alone.
A marginalised, threatening presence, Angel was not welcomed by Liliana’s
circle. She began to shrug him off, but his jealousy bloomed into murderous
rage. On the night of July 16, 1990, he broke into her apartment and killed
her. She was just 20 years old.
Almost 30 years later, Liliana’s older sister, award-winning author Cristina
Rivera Garza, found the courage to confront her grief and write about the crime
that devastated her family. The result is
Liliana’s Invincible Summer, a
deeply moving, powerfully haunting work that defies genre with a rare
combination of poetic and scholarly sensibilities."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
