Seattle Latinx Bookclub - Liliana's Invincible Summer

Schedule

Sat Aug 23 2025 at 12:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

TBD | Seattle, WA

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Join us in comunidad as we discuss the memoir Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
About this Event

This month we'll be discussing the memoir Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza. A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her M**der, from one of Mexico's greatest living writers. As always, our number one priority is creating comunidad. So please feel free to attend even if you didn't get a chance to finish the book this month.

Nos vemos pronto!


Where to find the book

You can find a copy of their book on Bookshop.org here

Purchase through Estelita's Library's Bookshop.org storefront, and you'll support Seattle's local Black/Brown-owned justice-focused community bookstore & lending library.

You can also find the book at Seattle Public Library in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.


About the Book

In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice.

In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: that of a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. It traces the story of her childhood, her early romance with a handsome--but possessive and short-tempered--man, through the exhilarating weeks leading up to that fateful July morning, a summer when Liliana loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before.

Using her remarkable talents as a scholar, novelist, and poet, Cristina Rivera Garza returns to Mexico after decades of living in the United States to collect and curate evidence--handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, architectural blueprints--in order to render and understand a life beyond the crime itself. Tracing the full arc of their childhood and adolescence in central Mexico, through the painful and confusing years after Liliana's death, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister, and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is--and what she fights for--today.


About the Author

Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Houston and was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2020.


2025 Meeting Dates & Book Picks

  • , Iris Morales
  • , Saraciea Fennell & Various
  • , Camila Sosa Villada
  • , Cristina Enriquez
  • , Yesika Salgado
  • , Vincent Tirado
  • , Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  • , Cristina Rivera Garza
  • , Aja Monet
  • , Isabel Cañas
  • , Deborah Miranda
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