A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE 'Meticulously written and
deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY 'Absorbing and poetic' ECONOMIST 'Full of tenderness
and beauty' MARIANA ENRIQUEZ From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers an astonishing
work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one
woman. I seek justice I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes
twenty-nine years to say it out loud to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the
General Attorney's office: I seek justice. On the dawn of 16 July 1990 Liliana Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza's sister was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's
dark and relentless history of femicide. She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had
been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not
letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy Liliana made a definitive decision: at the
height of her winter she had discovered that as Albert Camus had said there was an invincible
summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's
degree and a doctorate she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not
have a life without him. Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States
Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence - handwritten letters police reports
school notebooks voice recordings and architectural blueprints - to defy a pattern of
increasingly normalised gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is
Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and like that of so many disappeared and outraged
women in Mexico demanding justice.
